Painted Buntings — A Sunny Summer's Day Spread Your Wings running along open fields and

running along open fields and shorelines rather than perching in trees

Sandhill cranes are among the oldest bird species on the planet

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

That intelligence feels present in this painting

Their orange breast is technically a display feature used in territorial disputes

Painted Buntings — A Sunny Summer's Day Spread Your Wings running along open fields andEvery 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