Sisson Blanchard ( 1926-1981) 24"x72" Six Owls & Five Owlets c1970 Oil on Board Unframed Painting#1LA Artists/Zachari Pierre and fundraisers

and fundraisers

and beautiful

with lighter subjects in the center of his canvas

he had a show at the Coral Spring Museum of Art in Florida

they can be faithfully rendered in sculpted material or a drawing

Sisson Blanchard ( 1926-1981) 24"x72" Six Owls & Five Owlets c1970 Oil on Board Unframed Painting#1LA Artists/Zachari Pierre and fundraisersThis large scale oil on board by Sisson Blanchard presents a striking family of owls: six blue, densely dotted adults perched shoulder to shoulder along a green branch, their round eyes fixed outward against a deep black background, with five smaller owlets gathered beneath them among clusters of dark seed pods. Vivid red flowers and rust toned autumn leaves weave through the composition, filling the spaces between the birds and softening the black