Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle I painted this piece freehand

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

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

less defined plumage — warm gray-blue above

neck curved

each capturing an owl in soaring flight

Cormorant II ~ "Shoreline Spirits" ~ Watercolor Rectangle I painted this piece freehandThis 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