Great Blue Heron ~ "Spread Your Wings" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Songbirds & Friends or interior design aficionado in

or interior design aficionado in your life with the gift of Holly Wach's transcendent brushwork

one of a kind -- a quiet West Virginia morning

This red-tailed hawk pastel painting captures the most common yet most underappreciated raptor in North America

which primarily features large waterbirds

and painting it required understanding the specific aerodynamics that shape the wing posture

Great Blue Heron ~ "Spread Your Wings" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Songbirds & Friends or interior design aficionado inThis blue heron original watercolor is an invitation to let go. "Spread Your Wings" captures a great blue heron at full extension wings stretched to their widest span, body suspended in that extraordinary moment when gravity loosens its grip and the bird becomes part of the sky. It's the most open, most vulnerable, most magnificent posture a heron can hold. I created this piece freehand using my Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto natural mineral