Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed and sublime beauty of my

and sublime beauty of my avian muses vibrantly to life on the canvas

this one feels free

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

each layer adding depth without weighing down the energy

Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed and sublime beauty of myThe 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