Painted Buntings — Summer Love Size:18x18 A Belted Kingfisher holds still

A Belted Kingfisher holds still at the water's edge

this painting is all about the energy coiled just before release

Pastel lets me create the surface texture of feathers in a way watercolor handles differently — each stroke sits on the paper

I painted it the way I paint all of these: wet-on-wet

"Balance" shows a great blue heron poised between two states — not quite still

Painted Buntings — Summer Love Size:18x18 A Belted Kingfisher holds stillEvery songbird watercolor print in this group comes from my Songbirds & Friends series paintings of the birds that fill our gardens, feeders, and forests with personality. Cardinals in winter red against snow. Dark eyed juncos arriving with the first cold front. Florida scrub jays threatened, curious, and found nowhere else on earth. Painted buntings wearing every color in the spectrum. Golden crowned kinglets weighing less than two quarters. Tufted