Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed The clean white underside provides

The clean white underside provides the contrast that makes the color on top sing

and sublime beauty of my avian muses vibrantly to life on the canvas

every line of the body flowing with the kind of effortless poise that gives the painting its name

and quiet spaces where you want art that invites reflection rather than demanding attention

belting out its teakettle-teakettle song

Pileated Woodpecker, Jewelweed ~ "Beauty In The Dark" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed The clean white underside providesThe Pileated Woodpecker is a bird of the deep woods nearly crow sized, with that flaming red crest, hammering at a dead trunk in the shade where the light barely reaches. You usually hear the drumming first, echoing through the trees, and then you find him working in the half dark. There is real beauty in that hidden corner of the forest, and that is what I wanted this piece to hold. I set him against jewelweed, the orange touch me not that thrives in