Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Wild Bee Balm ~ "Spark Of Life" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed on archival cotton rag paper

on archival cotton rag paper using Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto

"Grace" captures a sandhill crane in a moment of stillness that holds more power than movement ever could — head turned

singing field can hold

This one looks like it's introducing itself

a crown of red that demands restraint from my brush

Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Wild Bee Balm ~ "Spark Of Life" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed on archival cotton rag paperA hummingbird is pure energy made small. The Ruby Throated is the only one that nests across the eastern states, and a single bird can visit a thousand blooms in a day, its heart racing, its wings a blur, that throat flaring red and then gone. Painting one is like trying to hold a spark in your hand which is exactly what I was after here. I gave it wild bee balm again, because nothing draws these birds like those shaggy red blossoms, and because I