Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle The composition came naturally —

The composition came naturally — two birds

The great grey owl is the collection's most hypnotic subject

I painted this piece freehand using my Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto

"Teacher" is about the wisdom these large woodpeckers seem to carry — their deliberate movements

Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle The composition came naturally —This cormorant watercolor painting captures a bird most people walk past without a second look. Cormorants are the overlooked athletes of the waterbird world they dive deeper and swim faster underwater than almost any other bird, and they dry their wings in that iconic spread wing posture that looks like a dark angel sunbathing. "Cormorant II" catches one in character: angular, intense, unapologetically itself. I painted this freehand on archival