Great Blue Heron ~ "Spread Your Wings" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Songbirds & Friends in layers and with no

in layers and with no drawing first

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

they share space with an ease that reads as genuine companionship

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 in layers and with noThis 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