Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed running along open fields and

running along open fields and shorelines rather than perching in trees

contemplative intensity to bedrooms

and I wanted this piece to feel like that -- small

The yellow eyes remain the composition's focal point

slate-blue wings

Great Blue Heron ~ "Feel The Sky" ~ "Oh, to Fly" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed running along open fields andThis 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