Langham Collection — Blue Jay Size:12x12 starting with warm base tones

starting with warm base tones and adding the barring and shadow patterns on top

and powerful shoulders through layered strokes that create physical texture on the paper

cool whites and silvers on the face and breast

Snowy owls are Arctic specialists — they breed on the tundra

Cormorants are among the most ancient-looking birds alive — their angular silhouettes

Langham Collection — Blue Jay Size:12x12 starting with warm base tonesThis Langham Collection bird print comes from a body of work I created for The Langham Hotel Boston a two year collaboration that placed my watercolors in the hotels guest rooms as permanent art in residence. The Langham selected four species blue jay, tree swallow, great blue heron, and belted kingfisher for their connection to New Englands natural landscape, and I painted each one specifically for the intimate scale and quiet light of a hotel room.