Penguin in the Surf Wood Print

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"Penguin in the Surf"

A Humboldt penguin swims and frolics in the ocean surf in a digital soft pastel painting in hues of blue, turquoise, aqua, gray, black and white. Not all penguins live in cold climates, the Humboldt is actually indigenous to Chile and Peru. Humboldts are considered vulnerable as a species, and almost all penguin species are listed as vulnerable, threatened or endangered. The largest extinct penguin stood as tall as a man and I would love to have one escort me to my next formal affair. Please visit my Avian Flights of Fancy art gallery to see more of my bird artwork... no actual flight required.

Copyright 2021 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...