Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed Embrace the radiant energy and

Embrace the radiant energy and joy of hummingbirds with an original from my 'Fluttering Sparks' collection

and I wanted this piece to feel like that -- small

slate-blue wings

a black necklace around a white throat

lifting off into open sky

Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed Embrace the radiant energy andThis great blue heron watercolor painting captures the moment a heron opens itself completely to the sky wings spread wide, chest lifted, every feather reaching upward as if the bird is breathing in the entire atmosphere. I called it "Feel The Sky" because that's what I saw in this pose: not flight, not hunting, not even stretching. Something more elemental. A bird surrendering to the air around it. I painted this piece freehand, alla prima (completed