Great Blue Heron — Glide Watercolor warm buff flanks — and

warm buff flanks — and the mineral pigments handle those clean transitions beautifully

Three birds in one composition means three sets of relationships — to each other

I created this piece freehand using my Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto — natural mineral watercolors that produce the range of blue-grays in heron plumage with a luminosity that synthetic paints can't match

and that distinctive peaked crest

Great Blue Heron — Glide Watercolor warm buff flanks — andEvery great blue heron art print in this collection starts as an original watercolor painted freehand, in a single session, using handmade Kissho Gansai mineral pigments from Kyoto. Great blue herons are my signature subject. They stand four feet tall, hunt with the patience of a monk, and move through the air with a wingspan that can fill a room. Ive painted them wading in still water at dawn, lifting off into open sky, and standing in the kind of