Painted Buntings — A Sunny Summer's Day Spread Your Wings creating a tactile texture that

creating a tactile texture that gives feathers their physical weight

My classical training at the New York Academy of Art informs the precision required to paint birds this small — every proportion matters when the entire subject fits in the palm of your hand

and they're every bit as wild and real as the herons and cranes I paint

just as it would in nature — one fluid motion

Painted Buntings — A Sunny Summer's Day Spread Your Wings creating a tactile texture thatEvery 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