Roseate Spoonbill — Welcome Size:9x12 Capturing a candid expression and

Capturing a candid expression and playful moment

That anatomical knowledge is what gives the wings their structural truth — they don't just look open

The natural mineral pigments gave me the exact tone I needed

My MFA from the New York Academy of Art and decades of classical training in anatomy and life drawing are what let me paint a bird in motion freehand and have it feel real

each capturing an owl in soaring flight

Roseate Spoonbill — Welcome Size:9x12 Capturing a candid expression andThis roseate spoonbill print captures the most dramatically colorful wading bird in North America. Roseate spoonbills are pink not the soft blush of a flamingo but a vivid, almost tropical range from shell to deep rose. That color comes from carotenoid pigments in the crustaceans they eat, and it intensifies with age: the oldest birds wear the brightest plumage. Their flat, spatulate bill sweeps through shallow water in wide arcs, and in flight theyre