Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds — Delicate Balance Framing:Unframed The warm grays and cinnamon

The warm grays and cinnamon tones of the sandhill's plumage emerged through wet-on-wet washes with natural mineral pigments

and it's confident about the destination

its wings a blur

The heron's proportions

Their recovery is one of conservation's success stories

Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds — Delicate Balance Framing:Unframed The warm grays and cinnamonEvery 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