Roseate Spoonbill — Welcome Size:9x12 painted in a single session

painted in a single session with no corrections

decisive brushstrokes

the wingspan stretches across the paper with a physical presence that fills a wall

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

and their dances are among the oldest courtship rituals on the planet

Roseate Spoonbill — Welcome Size:9x12 painted in a single sessionThis 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