Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed belting out its teakettle-teakettle song

belting out its teakettle-teakettle song

every line of the body flowing with the kind of effortless poise that gives the painting its name

Florida scrub jays are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act

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

'Abundance' -- a small bird in a field that is holding nothing back

Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed belting out its teakettle-teakettle songThe Pileated Woodpecker is a bird of the deep woods nearly crow sized, with that flaming red crest, hammering at a dead trunk in the shade where the light barely reaches. You usually hear the drumming first, echoing through the trees, and then you find him working in the half dark. There is real beauty in that hidden corner of the forest, and that is what I wanted this piece to hold. I set him against jewelweed, the orange touch me not that thrives in