Swamp Sparrow ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Lovebirds It commands serious wall space

It commands serious wall space — living rooms

Each giclée is printed in my studio with color I’ve matched to the original

the body language open and welcoming

and they look less like mating displays and more like pure joy

The orange-red legs break through all that subtlety with a flash of pure color

Swamp Sparrow ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Lovebirds It commands serious wall spaceThis swamp sparrow watercolor painting captures a bird of the cattails a rusty capped sparrow that lives in the densest, wettest corners of marshes where most people never venture. Swamp sparrows are singers. Their trilling song carries across the water on early mornings, one of those sounds that makes a marsh feel alive and ancient. I worked freehand on archival cotton rag paper with Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto. The rich russet crown, gray