Sandhill Cranes — Follow Me Oh To Fly Working wet-on-wet with natural mineral

Working wet-on-wet with natural mineral pigments

This original is one of the premier pieces in my Oh

and offices where the ocean’s edge feels like home

each naturalistic scene celebrates the elegance of the bird world

each wash building on the last until the luminosity feels right

Sandhill Cranes — Follow Me Oh To Fly Working wet-on-wet with natural mineralEvery sandhill crane art print in this group began as an original watercolor of one of North Americas most ancient birds. Sandhill cranes have been dancing for ten million years thats documented fossil record, not metaphor. Their courtship displays involve leaping, bowing, wing spreading, and calling in unison, and Ive watched these dances in Florida fields enough to paint them from memory. The joy in these paintings is real. I work freehand on