Horned Lark ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor curatedgifts The yellow eyes were painted

The yellow eyes were painted last — two points of fierce intensity against all that softness

Their iridescence shifts with every angle

in a single session using handmade Gansai pigments from Kyoto

the great grey owl commands through stillness

and this painting carries that dusky

Horned Lark ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor curatedgifts The yellow eyes were paintedThis horned lark watercolor painting captures one of the world's most widespread songbirds a bird found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia. Horned larks are ground birds, running along open fields and shorelines rather than perching in trees. Those tiny black "horns" actually feather tufts give them a distinctive silhouette that's easy to spot once you know what to look for. I worked freehand on archival cotton rag paper with Kissho