After years in the planning I've finally put a rather splashy watercolour brush to paper and embarked on my series of American Songbirds.
As a lifelong city dweller these incredible creatures are by far the most regular birds I see and I can't overstate how precious these encounters are, an absolute delight to both eye and ear and a lifting of my spirit out of the everyday and into the skies. I guess I should have started with a series of British Birds but the stunning colours (and fab hairdos!) of their American cousins was a temptation I could not resist.
This Northen Cardinal has been painted in Gouache and colour pencil on a watercolour background carefully chosen to best compliment the rosy hues of the Cardinal. This piece is on opulently thick 100% cotton Fabriano Artistico HP paper measuring 11" by 14"
