Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Jewelweed ~ "Catch Me If You Can" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor

Try to follow a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird with your eye and you will lose -- they dart, hover, reverse, and vanish faster than you can turn your head. There is something playful in it, a kind of dare, and that is the spirit of this piece: catch me if you can. I painted one mid-flit among jewelweed, the orange touch-me-not whose nectar these birds love, in the damp shade where both of them thrive.

It is a smaller, quicker painting than some in the collection, and I wanted it to feel that way -- light on its feet, caught in the half-second before the bird is gone again. I worked it wet-on-wet, in layers, with no drawing underneath, letting the strokes stay loose so the motion reads honestly.

An original watercolor on paper, one of a kind. 'Catch Me If You Can' -- a wink of a painting, all speed and orange light.

Materials:  Each watercolor original is unique, the only one of its kind. Created on 300lb Arches Watercolor Paper with Japanese Sumi-é watercolor paint designed to last a lifetime.

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