Great Blue Heron ~ "A Love Story" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed The warm reds of the

The warm reds of the tail feathers are the painting's emotional center — a flash of unexpected color on a bird most people see only as a dark shape against the sky

This florida scrub jay watercolor art captures one of the most endangered and intelligent birds in America

My decades of life drawing at the New York Academy of Art are what allow me to capture a four-foot bird mid-leap and have the anatomy hold together freehand

The rufous coloring — a deep

when anything in their territory changes

Great Blue Heron ~ "A Love Story" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed The warm reds of theThis great blue heron original watercolor is about two birds choosing each other. "A Love Story" captures a pair of great blue herons in a moment of quiet togetherness not the dramatic bill clacking courtship display, but the tender stillness that comes after. When herons have chosen their mate, they stand near each other with a calm devotion that feels almost human. I painted this freehand, alla prima (completed in a single session), on archival