The Little Nuthatch — field guide paintings

I have taken on a project. Backyard Bird Guides for each state featuring their top 25 birds. Thanks to the wonderful resource of Cornell's Project FeederWatch I compiled the lists of birds by going through the past 5 years of FeederWatch records. I hope they are accurate and satisfactory! I am using my existing Florida and North Carolina guides as starting points and compiling the guides, painting new birds as needed. I will work my way from East Coast to West, as more and more birds will need to be painted as I move into unknown territory! And Hawaii will...

I get a lot of requests for bears, so here we go, a Bear of the World field guide painting: Featuring: Black Bear Brown Bear Moon Bear Panda Bear Polar Bear Sloth Bear Spectacled Sun Bear   This was a little difficult to figure. While it would have been nice to specifically include well known bears such as the Grizzly Bear and Kodiak Bear, they are subspecies of the Brown Bear so I had to get generic. The Florida Black Bear, my local bear, is a subspecies of the Black Bear. And then there is a Koala Bear, which is...

Salamanders are the subject of my latest Field Guide painting. I don't know much about them. Someone pointed out to me that they are both beautiful and cute, and suggested I do a painting. I started researching and there are MANY, so I picked out some pretty ones that can be found around Florida (always looking to further educate myself on the local wildlife). Here is the result:   Featuring: Long-tailed Salamander Marbled Salamander Red Salamander Slimy Salamander Three-lined Salamander Tiger Salamander Two-lined Salamander   Speaking of Salamanders, I have seen very few. Elusive little creatures. I did see one...

My first painting of 2014- Sloths! Brown-throated Sloth, Hoffmann's Sloth, Linnaeus's Sloth, Maned Sloth, Pale-throated Sloth, Pygmy Sloth. So cute!

  I get a lot of requests for more fox paintings, so I thought a field guide would be pretty cool. There are so many different types of foxes, I didn't even realize how many... in this field guide we have: Arctic Fox Bat-eared Fox Bengal Fox Blanford's Fox Cape Fox Crab-eating Fox Corsac Fox Culpeo Fox Darwin's Fox Fennec Fox Gray Fox Hoary Fox Island Fox Kit Fox Pale Fox Pampas Fox Ruppell's Fox Red Fox Sechuran Fox South American Gray Fox Swift Fox Tibetan Sand Fox Prints are in the shop!