Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed My training at the New

My training at the New York Academy of Art — decades of studying anatomy and gesture through life drawing — is what allows me to convey that intelligence through posture alone

"The Return Of Spring" has the presence of my Oh

This is more than a portrait — it's a record of a species whose habitat shrinks every year

The female's subtler plumage required equal care: the warm browns and soft reddish tones that make her beautiful in a quieter way

Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed My training at the NewThis painted bunting original painting captures a pair in their most intimate season. "Summer Love" shows two painted buntings together the male in his impossible rainbow plumage, the female in her quieter but equally beautiful yellow green. Painted buntings are one of the few songbirds where the pair bond is visible in their body language: they perch close, they orient toward each other, they share space with an ease that reads as genuine