Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle their plumage built through the

their plumage built through the same wet-on-wet mineral pigment washes but each bird maintaining its own character

each capturing an owl in soaring flight

less defined plumage — warm gray-blue above

The great grey owl is the collection's most hypnotic subject

This snowy egret watercolor painting captures the most graceful of all white wading birds

Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle their plumage built through theThis cormorant watercolor painting captures a bird most people walk past without a second look. Cormorants are the overlooked athletes of the waterbird world they dive deeper and swim faster underwater than almost any other bird, and they dry their wings in that iconic spread wing posture that looks like a dark angel sunbathing. "Cormorant II" catches one in character: angular, intense, unapologetically itself. I painted this freehand on archival