Rufous Hummingbirds — Oh How Lucky Am I Rainbows with Wings the yellow feet and eye

the yellow feet and eye ring provide sharp accents

the way their plumage echoes and contrasts

and the instincts built through decades of life drawing

Least bitterns live deep in the cattails

Pelicans are social fliers

Rufous Hummingbirds — Oh How Lucky Am I Rainbows with Wings the yellow feet and eyeEvery hummingbird watercolor print in this group started with one of the greatest technical challenges in bird painting: iridescence. Hummingbird color isnt pigment its structural, created by microscopic feather platelets refracting light. The throat of a ruby throated hummingbird shifts from black to blazing ruby depending on the angle. A rufous hummingbird burns copper to garnet. Suggesting that in a static medium like watercolor is where my