Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed The female's subtler plumage required

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

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

that pause before the day gets loud

this one is about presence — a bird that commands attention simply by walking through a room

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

Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed The female's subtler plumage requiredThis 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