Pelicans: Flying Duo ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed This Langham Collection bird print

This Langham Collection bird print comes from a body of work I created for The Langham Hotel Boston — a two-year collaboration that placed my watercolors in the hotel’s guest rooms as permanent art-in-residence

"Ready to Dance" brings powerful

producing a color that literally changes depending on your angle of view

metallic but not harsh

Bold contrasts and delicate details honor their fierce strength and resilience within their diminutive forms

Pelicans: Flying Duo ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed This Langham Collection bird printThis pelican original painting captures two brown pelicans flying in close formation wingtips nearly touching, bodies aligned, riding the same column of warm air rising off the water. Pelicans are social fliers. They draft off each other's wake turbulence, trading positions in a line with a cooperative efficiency that looks choreographed. This painting catches that partnership in the air. I worked freehand on archival cotton rag paper using Kissho