Red Winged Blackbirds ~ "The Return Of Spring" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor baby birds 'Nature's Cure' -- a late-summer

'Nature's Cure' -- a late-summer field full of old remedies and the quiet good of standing in it

and this painting carries that dusky

not hunting

The tiny body

letting the color shift from orange to ruby to gold as it would in life

Red Winged Blackbirds ~ "The Return Of Spring" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor baby birds 'Nature's Cure' -- a late-summerThis red winged blackbird watercolor painting marks the moment winter breaks. "The Return Of Spring" captures red winged blackbirds in their iconic posture shoulder epaulets blazing scarlet and gold against jet black plumage, beaks open in that unmistakable territorial song that announces spring has arrived. For anyone who watches birds, hearing a red winged blackbird is the true first day of the new season. I painted this piece freehand on archival