Painted Buntings ~ "A Sunny Summer's Day" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed This bald eagle pastel art

This bald eagle pastel art strips away the patriotic symbolism and shows the bird for what it actually is — a massive

and it demanded pigments that could hold that vibrancy without looking artificial

two expressions of silent

a black necklace around a white throat

the female in her quieter but equally beautiful yellow-green

Painted Buntings ~ "A Sunny Summer's Day" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed This bald eagle pastel artThis painted bunting watercolor art celebrates the most colorful bird in North America. "A Sunny Summer's Day" captures painted buntings in their full glory electric blue heads, lime green backs, red underparts a palette so vivid that first time birdwatchers often think they're seeing a tropical escapee. They're not. Painted buntings are native to the American South, and they're every bit as wild and real as the herons and cranes I paint. I worked