American Songbird Series.

As a lifelong city dweller songbirds are by far the most regular birds I see and I can't overstate how precious these encounters are, an absolute delight to both eye and ear and a lifting of my spirit out of the everyday and into the skies. I guess I should have started with a series of British Birds but the stunning colours (and fab hairdos!) of their American cousins was a temptation I could not resist.

This Northern Cardinal has been painted in Gouache and colour pencil on a watercolour background carefully chosen to best compliment the rosy hues of the Cardinal.

Watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.