Burrowing Owls

We were on a quest today to find a burrowing owl reported living near the Sunnyvale Baylands.  No luck.  But these owls have been on my mind.  We saw a half dozen last spring in Ecuador high up in the mountains and we used to see them fairly regularly near my husband’s office in Mountain View.  They are very expressive and lots of fun to paint.

For this painting I had in mind the owls we saw in Ecuador which were hanging around some low shrubs.  More often though we see them in the open on bare ground and I tried to get that feeling in this little painting.