Reed Bunting ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor shorebirds Looking for the perfect gift

Looking for the perfect gift

These prints capture the full range of the great blue heron’s personality — the drama

The pileated's striking red crest demanded pigments that could hold both intensity and transparency — the Gansai reds deliver that beautifully

not just acrobatic ones

This great grey owl pastel painting captures the largest owl in North America by length — a bird with a five-foot wingspan and a facial disc designed to funnel sound so precisely that it can locate prey beneath a foot of snow

Reed Bunting ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor shorebirds Looking for the perfect giftThis reed bunting watercolor painting captures a European marsh songbird with striking markings a black head and throat that frames a white collar, giving the bird the look of someone dressed for a formal occasion in the middle of a wetland. Reed buntings perch at the tops of reeds and sing with a persistence that's endearing. They're small birds with big presence. I painted this freehand on archival cotton rag paper with Kissho Gansai pigments from