Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds — Delicate Balance Framing:Unframed starting with warm base tones

starting with warm base tones and adding the barring and shadow patterns on top

The heron's proportions

and it's confident about the destination

Where chickadees charm and goldfinches delight

Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds — Delicate Balance Framing:Unframed starting with warm base tonesEvery hummingbird watercolor print in this group started with one of the greatest technical challenges in bird painting: iridescence. Hummingbird color isnt pigment its structural, created by microscopic feather platelets refracting light. The throat of a ruby throated hummingbird shifts from black to blazing ruby depending on the angle. A rufous hummingbird burns copper to garnet. Suggesting that in a static medium like watercolor is where my