Owl Barn Pins and Buttons

This is my second owl watercolour piece after enjoying working on the first so much. For whatever reason they translate really well to paintings. This time I worked on a barn owl, there's a lot less detail in these types as opposed to the spotted eagle owl, so I tried out a new background technique to help the animal stand out more. I think this piece has a fantasy based quality to it, mixing the subject matter and the background, it wasn't my initial aim, but I do like the end result.

Barn Owl in flight with forest and skyembedded in wing design

A painted portrait of a barn owl. I like his serious face and contemplative look! Also available with painted background.

Did you know a barn owl's ears are lop-sided, with one higher than the other, to help them pinpoint the exact location of even the slightest sound? Show your love for these nocturnal birds without the worry of it keeping you awake at night.

A pen and ink illustration with watercolor splatter of a Barn Owl sitting on a log, with flying European Starlings in the background decorated with gold highlights.

Every Tyto you can think of! From the left: albino, leucistic, common, grass, melanistic, masked, and sooty.

Original design created using, pencil, markers and a variety of different black pens.

"I am the calm in the storm" 2020 acrylic on canvas 12"x12"...I was feeling experimental and got crazy with the palette knife. literally feels like you could cut the tension in the air with a knife.

The Owl Barn Foulness Island, Essex, UK. HDR created from one RAW file processed as five DNG files in Photomatix, adjustments in CS6 with some help from Topaz and Nik Filters. Nikon 1 J2 compact camera with a Nikkor 10-30 zoom. Foulness Island Foulness Island is the largest island in Essex and the fourth largest off the coast of England. It has vast stretches of isolated marshland and is separated from the mainland by tidal waterways. The River Crouch is to the north, the River Roach to the west and the North Sea to the East. There are two villages on the north side, Churchend and Courtsend, with a total population of around 200. The island’s name is derived from the Old English fulga-naess. Fulga is the old word for fowl...

Cute little barn owls surrounded by leaves, ferns & flowers, created with all sorts of different wooden textures in shades of tan, brown, grey & gold.

Barn owl

Barn owl.

A beautiful barn owl nested in floral foliage.

This is a classic white logo of the world famous* Barn Owl Barbell Club, the strongest gym in the northwest!**

Cute little barn owls surrounded by leaves, ferns & flowers, created with all sorts of different wooden textures in shades of tan, brown, grey & gold.

Photograph of a barn owl on a rock

Barn owl and roses

Pale colored Barn Owl.

Black and white Horned owl illustration.

This is a classic blacklogo of the world famous* Barn Owl Barbell Club, the strongest gym in the northwest!**

Cute barn owl

Everything is cuter when it's round.

Barn owl with moon surrounded by flowers

Barn Owl

A drawing with Indian ink and pen of a barn owl. The owl flies through the air in the attack position with its legs stretched out in front of it, ready to grab its prey.

Night barn owl illustration.

Happy holidays! Drawn for Inktober 2016 Day 8 Copyright 2016 Kristen O'Keefe. All rights reserved. All images property of Kristen O'Keefe and are protected by copyright law. Resale, downloading, reproducing, printing, and comping of these images is illegal without permission of the artist.

Vintage woodcut of barn owl on branch

A wild watercolor drawing of a barn owl. The owl flies through the air in the attack position with its legs stretched out in front of it, ready to grab its prey.

Barn owls are both an omen of death and a symbol of wisdom

Has it brought you a letter?

Wise Owl by Samuel J Art.

"I move the stars for no one" movie quote by Jareth from Labyrinth with him in Barn Owl form

Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are silent predators of the night world. You can find them by listening for their eerie, raspy calls, quite unlike the hoots of other owls. Despite a worldwide distribution, Barn Owls are declining in parts of their range due to habitat loss.

Barn Owl

Barn Owl