I’ve been inspired by owls as subjects for a long time. Screech owls moved into an owl box down the street, so I started this one in Nov. 2021. It’s an illustration style with a lot of opportunity for feather detail making it more interesting. I started at the one above in Nov. and kept working on it through Jan.
I made a shirt design in Nov. as well, a quickie shirt design in 3 colors:
I’ve been inspired by screech owls for years, really. My fave is this one from Jan 2021:
A simple art-deco style:
A sketch:
Love burrowing owls too:
At one point a few years ago a great horned owl pair raised their owlets in a nest in a neighborhood next to ours, we visited regularly.
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