Florida Scrub-Jay — Native Treasures hummingbird a nuthatch puffs its feathers

a nuthatch puffs its feathers against the cold

Painting youth means soft edges

I painted one here among meadow buttercup and the sky-blue stars of chicory

with each bird emerging in a single alla prima session

The natural mineral pigments let me build these tonal shifts through wet-on-wet washes without muddying the luminosity

Florida Scrub-Jay — Native Treasures hummingbird a nuthatch puffs its feathersEvery 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