Cardinal, Daisy ~ "Loyalty" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds Using innovative freehand techniques

Using innovative freehand techniques

that roadside flower that opens fresh every morning and closes by afternoon

The crane's fossil record stretches back over two million years

I hear that from collectors more often with cardinals than with any other bird

Cardinal, Daisy ~ "Loyalty" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds Using innovative freehand techniquesA cardinal among daisies the first bird most of us learn to name, and still the one that stops you at the window. Cardinals pair for life and stay through every season, and through the winter you will see the male carry a seed to his mate and place it in her bill, a small act of devotion repeated all year long. That is where the name comes from: loyalty. I painted him in the soft early light that runs through this whole collection, that pause before