Black-Chinned Hummingbird — Simple Pleasures Square whose melodies seem to emanate

whose melodies seem to emanate from the canvas

They plan ahead

"Cardinal Love" is one of the most emotionally resonant pieces in my Songbirds & Friends collection

It's a conversation between my brush and the paper

"Grace" is a meditation painting

Black-Chinned Hummingbird — Simple Pleasures Square whose melodies seem to emanateEvery 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