Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed cream — that the natural

cream — that the natural mineral pigments render with a luminosity synthetic paints miss

that pause before the day gets loud

My training at the New York Academy of Art — decades of studying anatomy and gesture through life drawing — is what allows me to convey that intelligence through posture alone

catching prey they've never seen

The russet breast was built in careful washes that warm the painting and ground the cooler blues

Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed cream — that the naturalThis painted bunting original painting captures a pair in their most intimate season. "Summer Love" shows two painted buntings together the male in his impossible rainbow plumage, the female in her quieter but equally beautiful yellow green. Painted buntings are one of the few songbirds where the pair bond is visible in their body language: they perch close, they orient toward each other, they share space with an ease that reads as genuine