American Goldfinch, Meadow Buttercup, Chicory ~ "Youthful Delights" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed fierce raptor with a seven-foot

fierce raptor with a seven-foot wingspan and a gaze that makes you understand why nothing in the sky challenges it

" That's the training talking

and living rooms where precision and poise set the tone

"Snowy Egret IV" is the fourth in a series of studies I've made of these birds

American Goldfinch, Meadow Buttercup, Chicory ~ "Youthful Delights" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed fierce raptor with a seven-footThere is something forever young about an American Goldfinch the bright color, the bouncing roller coaster flight, the way a small flock seems to play its way across a field rather than simply cross it. I painted one here among meadow buttercup and the sky blue stars of chicory, that roadside flower that opens fresh every morning and closes by afternoon. It is a piece about the lightness of early summer, when everything is new and the day feels long.