Detailed image description for Glistening Owl

We see an owl comprising the lower 75% of the canvas. The artist employs thick bold lines of color. Our eyes are first drawn to the owl’s eyes, located slightly above the center. Each has a bright off-white pupil/sclera surrounded by concentric shades of first brown then black. Above the eyes are thick eyebrows or hair tufts, curvaceous and extending to endings pointed up on both sides. They are tricolors, with layers going top to bottom of red, white and blue.

Under the eyes is an upside-down white triangle perhaps representing a beak, if not a nose. Under it are first lines of brown, then four quadrilaterals of, left to right, pink, dark blue, light blue and yellow. The owl’s body continues under that, we see irregular areas of orangish-brown, dark purple, dark green, off-white, pink and brown.

Prominent on either side are two thick leaf-shaped wings. Almost like a technicolor dream coat they sport: On the left, going left to right, starkly contrasting curvilinear thick lines of light brown, dark brown, pink, dark green, off-white, brown, blue, and brown. On the right, going top to bottom, navy blue, a whorl of dark green surrounding a whorls of brown and dark purple, Then, more left, a triangular area of pink over a line of purple and dark purple. Finally orange, yellow and brown at the bottom. There’s a white line snaking from top right to middle left, reminiscent of a musical treble clef. All the white lines have multicolored glitter sprinkled on top, making the work glisten.

The background of the artwork, surrounding the owl, is a colorful blend of the colors previously mentioned. There are about 35 thick dots of color, alternating red green and blue, along all four borders except the bottom one. The artist’s initials are in black at lower right.

Written by Thom Haynes, Arts Access Audio Describer

All images and text belong to Erin Reams, except where noted.