The Santa Barbara Bird Refuge is one of the most beautiful and serene places to visit and very inspiring to paint. There are so many species of common water fowl to birds of paradise that it offers a full afternoon's entertainment. For example, it is located right next door to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Though you cannot see it in this painting, there is (to the left of this scene) a window through the trees to the giraffes' grounds. Every now and then one of them will stroll up to that window and study whatever life is going on there on the beach behind where I was painting.
It was a bright, sunny afternoon and so the colors were quite vivid, as you can see, and the water was calm as it almost always is lending a beautiful reflection of the Montecito Country Club in the distance.
"Santa Barbara Bird Refuge" 10"X 17" Oil on Canvas $680.00
