africa animal Archives - Teresa Bernard Oil Paintings

October 1, 2021August 2, 2022

Eye of the Zebra

A tightly-cropped painting of a Zebra’s face. The eye is the focal point of this African wildlife artwork. This Zebra painting would make a wonderful gift for anyone who loves these beautiful animals.

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About this Zebra Painting

eye of the zebra painting — Frame not included.

Title: Eye of the Zebra
Size: 9″ w x 12″ h
Support: Canvas Panel Board
Description: You will feel like you are on a safari with this close-up wildlife painting of a zebra. The zebra’s eye dominates the center of this painting while black and white stripes dance around it. This painting would look great as wall art in a bedroom, living room, or den. Eye of the Zebra is signed by fine artist Teresa Bernard.

This painting’s composition is hand-painted on a quality canvas panel board. It will need to be mounted in a frame before it is put on view.

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Artist Comments

I was commissioned a few years ago to create a series of five commission paintings for a gentleman who loves Africa. (You can find those in “Past Work.”) They included the landscape and wildlife of Africa. I really enjoyed doing them as it made me feel like I was actually there on some kind of safari. Every now and then, I’ll do another painting on Africa and this is one of them. I hope you enjoy this zebra painting.

Other Africa Paintings

Camelthorn Trees of Africa painting — Camelthorn Trees Of Africa (2011)
24″ w x 24″ h

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If you have a question about this painting, please contact us, and we’ll be happy to answer any of your questions.

Other Wildlife Paintings of Interest

wildlife paintings for sale — The American Bison
(2020)
24″ w x 18″ h

domestic animal paintings for sale — Texas Longhorn in The Meadow (2013)
20″ w x 16″ h

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January 27, 2020August 2, 2022

African Wildlife — Three Giraffes

Three giraffes are depicted in this oil painting. This piece is part of the Adventures in Africa series.

giraffes painting — African Wildlife — Three Giraffes © Copyright 2019 – Present

SOLD: This painting was a commissioned work and has been sold.

Customer Feedback

Hi Teresa, we received the paintings. They’re beautiful! Thank you very much. Our eldest will love the giraffes. — Glenn Callan, San Diego CA

About this Painting of Giraffes

Title: African Wildlife — Three Giraffes
Size: 18″ w x 24″ h
Support: Gallery Wrap Stretched Canvas
Description: A realistic composition of three giraffes on the open planes of the Serengeti. The adult giraffes are posing in a group with a blue sky overhead. Hand-painted and signed by Teresa Bernard.

Artist Comments

African Wildlife — Three Giraffes is one of several paintings I was commissioned to do for an art collector. My customer wanted to present this particular painting to his adult daughter as a Christmas gift since she loves giraffes.

I found this painting to be a challenging one since I had never painted giraffes before. Before putting my paintbrush to the canvas, I gave a lot of thought to how I would approach it. It required studying giraffes from every possible angle, paying special attention to their spots if you want to call them spots, that is. They are more like splotches. I observed that no two giraffes are identical in their “spots.” I also paid attention to the color of their splotches. Even though the giraffes are similar in color, I wanted each one to stand out, so I made the brown splotches slightly different in color for each giraffe.

After the painting was completed and delivered to my client’s home, he contacted me to tell me how much his daughter loved it.

Other Paintings in The Adventures in Africa Series

The giraffe painting shown above is one of five African-themed paintings commissioned by an art collector. The following links will take you to the other paintings in this commissioned group.

Mt. Kilimanjaro — Mount Kilimanjaro Rising (2018)
30″ w x 24″ h

victoria falls — Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (2018)
30″ w x 24″ h

african wildlife leopard painting — Africa Wildlife — Leopard (2019)
18″ w x 24″ h

african elephant painting — African Elephant On The Serengeti (2018)
18″ w x 24″ h

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January 22, 2020August 2, 2022

African Wildlife — Leopard

A leopard is depicted in this African wildlife painting. This piece is part of the Adventures in Africa series.

African leopard painting — African Wildlife — Leopard © Copyright 2019 – Present

SOLD: This painting is a commission and has been sold to an art collector in San Diego, CA.

About this Painting of The African Leopard

Title: African Wildlife — Leopard
Size: 18″ x 24″
Support: Gallery Wrap Stretched Canvas
Description: A realistic African wildlife portrait of the leopard. The leopard is sitting in front of a camouflaged background. This painting is hand-painted on gallery wrap stretched canvas and signed by artist Teresa Bernard.

Artist Comments

An art collector who is passionate about Africa commissioned this wildlife painting of a leopard. He wanted me to create a portrait of a leopard for his personal collection of African art. I composed this artwork using a reference photo provided by my client. It’s one of five paintings he commissioned from me. However, before I began working on this painting, I did some research about leopards. Here is a little of what I learned about this big cat.

About Leopards

Leopards are graceful and powerful big cats closely related to lions, tigers, and jaguars. They live in sub-Saharan Africa, northeast Africa, Central Asia, India, and China. They easily adapt to a wide variety of habitats, altitudes, and temperatures, from high mountains to deserts to rainforests. The largest of the species are named after the regions where they’re found, like the North African leopard and the Persian leopard. These big cats have a varied diet and enjoy different kinds of grub. They will eat bugs, fish, antelope, monkeys, rodents, deer; pretty much any prey that is available!

Other Paintings in The Adventures in Africa Series

An art collector commissioned five African-themed paintings, including the leopard painting shown above. The links below will take you to the other paintings in this commissioned series.

mt Kilimanjaro painting — Mount Kilimanjaro Rising (2018)
30″ w x 24″ h

victoria falls painting — Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (2018)
30″ w x 24″ h

african wildlife painting — Africa Wildlife — Giraffes (2019)
18″ w x 24″ h

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May 26, 2018August 2, 2022

African Elephant on The Serengeti

An oil painting of the African elephant on canvas. This artwork is part of the Adventures in Africa series.

SOLD: This painting was commissioned and sold to a California art collector.

About this African Elephant Oil Painting

Title: African Elephant on The Serengeti
Size: 18″ x 24″
Support: Gallery Wrap Stretched Canvas
Description: This realistic style painting depicts an African bull elephant on the Serengeti, a wildlife preserve and safari destination. This painting is hand-painted on quality gallery wrap stretched canvas and signed by American fine artist Teresa Bernard.

Customer Feedback

Teresa, our favorite elephant just arrived. My wife and I absolutely love it. So much more special in person. Fantastic! We can hardly wait to see the next two. Thanks again. — Glenn Callan, San Diego CA

framed painting of the African Elephant — Framed painting of African Elephant on The Serengeti.

Artist Comments

This African elephant painting is the first one of five commission paintings I painted for a client who lives in San Diego, California. He first contacted me about another elephant painting that I had painted several years back called Raging African Elephant. Since that one had already sold, he commissioned me to do the one above. While I was working on this painting, this same client commissioned more paintings of Africa.

Some Interesting Facts About African Elephants

- The word “elephant” comes from the Greek word “elephas,” meaning “ivory.”
- Elephants are the largest of all land animals and have an average life span of 50 to 70 years. There are only two distinct types of elephants — African and Asian. Of these two varieties, African elephants are the largest. The African variety has larger ears than its Asian cousin. Their ears look like the African continent and are used to radiate heat away from their body. Asian elephant ears are smaller and rounded.
- African elephants prefer to stay in herds of 12 to 20, and most of them live in the Savannah. Both the male and female African elephants grow tusks. They can grow to more than 12 feet tall and weigh up to about 7 tons (14,000 pounds).
- Males are called bulls, females are cows, and a baby is called a calf. When a calf is born, it can weigh 200 pounds and stand 3 feet tall. Gestation is about 22 months. The females are highly social and take excellent care of their offspring.

Other Paintings in The Adventures in Africa Series

African Elephant On The Serengeti shown above is one of five paintings commissioned by a private art buyer in San Diego, CA. The links below take you to the other paintings in this commissioned series.

Mount Kilimanjaro painting — Mount Kilimanjaro Rising (2018)
30″ w x 24″ h

giraffes wildlife painting — Africa Wildlife — Giraffes (2019)
18″ w x 24″ h

african wildllife leopard — Africa Wildlife — Leopard (2019)
18″ w x 24″ h

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♦ “Excellent realism! Looks like a photo! As an amateur sketcher, I can appreciate the exquisite attention to detail…indeed, it is worthy of the title; ‘fine art'” — Dann T Mann, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, MeWe

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