Sandhill Crane — May I Have This Dance Size:8x8 and stick-throwing

and stick-throwing

then plunging beak-first into the water with absolute commitment

letting the mauve of the Joe Pye Weed go soft and deep so the whole field feels like it is breathing

If you're drawn to cranes

Sandhill Crane — May I Have This Dance Size:8x8 and stick-throwingEvery sandhill crane art print in this group began as an original watercolor of one of North Americas most ancient birds. Sandhill cranes have been dancing for ten million years thats documented fossil record, not metaphor. Their courtship displays involve leaping, bowing, wing spreading, and calling in unison, and Ive watched these dances in Florida fields enough to paint them from memory. The joy in these paintings is real. I work freehand on