Great Gray Owl Dark of Night
by Ellen Levinson
Title
Great Gray Owl Dark of Night
Artist
Ellen Levinson
Medium
Painting - Digital Art/digitally Enhanced Watercolor
Description
Great Gray Owl Dark of Night is a digitally colorized version of my original watercolor painting "Great Gray Owl On A Snowy Day" in dark tones,vignette style. Owls have always fascinated me, as they have many throughout history - because of their mysterious nature associated with night magic. Owl energy is feminine energy,it is associated with night and the moon. Some believe it to have healing powers, while to others it is associated with evil and death (the Ojibwa) and the Pueblo who associate owl with Skeleton Man. The Pawnee associate owl with protection. And the ancient Greeks associated owl with the goddess Athena as a symbol of wisdom. In general owl medicine is that of both black and white magic,wisdom, clairvoyance and astral projection. Owl sees into the darkness and sees what is hidden.Whatever your beliefs about owl - they are beautiful and fascinating creatures.To me their eyes are captivating.
A Great Gray Owl perches on snow covered branches surveying the wintry countryside for prey,while snow falls softly around him.
Great Gray Owls have large heads shaped like a half dome. Their tails are wedge-shaped tails, and relatively long.Their large round facial disc has several narrow concentric rings of white and gray around each eye. The body feathers/plumage of the Great Gray owl are mostly gray, with a fine irregular stippling of gray, white, and a bit of brown. The have yellow eyes which appear small within the owl's wide facial disc and massive head.This bird's Russian common name, "Bearded Owl," refers to the distinct white bowtie markings under the owl's chin. They measure approximately 32 inches long, making them the largest owls in North America.
These owls are adept at sensing prey under deep snow. They use both their senses of sight and sound to locate and hunt their prey. Most of the time they are non-migratory birds, except when the rodent population becomes too diminished to support them, forcing them farther southward from their usual boreal forest of Canada,Siberia, and northern Europe.
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January 4th, 2015
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