Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed Framing options including Optium Museum

Framing options including Optium Museum Plexi available

lifting off into open sky

contemplative intensity to bedrooms

"Bliss" is the quietest

The yellow eyes remain the composition's focal point

Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed Framing options including Optium MuseumThis great blue heron watercolor painting captures the moment a heron opens itself completely to the sky wings spread wide, chest lifted, every feather reaching upward as if the bird is breathing in the entire atmosphere. I called it "Feel The Sky" because that's what I saw in this pose: not flight, not hunting, not even stretching. Something more elemental. A bird surrendering to the air around it. I painted this piece freehand, alla prima (completed