The Little Nuthatch — field guide paintings

New field guide painting, the Warblers of Merritt Island Part 2: Featuring: American Redstart Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-winged Warbler Cape May Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Common Yellowthroat Golden-winged Warbler Hooded Warbler Magnolia Warbler Nashville Warbler Prairie Warbler Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tennessee Warbler Wilson's Warbler Worm Eating Warbler This painting does not stand alone, there were too many warblers so I did two paintings. Here is Part 1, done quite some time ago: Prints are made, I will have them this weekend at The Big Crafty in Asheville, NC and will add them to the shop...

Finished another field guide painting in my Merritt Island, Florida birding series. This one has the woodpeckers, owls, goatsuckers, and some other odd ones... getting to the end of the list and it can be a bit hard to decide which set to put some of these birds in.   Features: Barn Owl Barred Owl Belted Kingfisher Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Chuck Will's Widow Downy Woodpecker Eastern Screech Owl Great Horned Owl Ground Dove Hairy Woodpecker Mourning Dove Northern Bobwhite Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Rock Pigeon Short-eared Owl Smooth-billed Ani Whip-poor-will Wild Turkey Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-billed...

New watercolor painting, an Acorns chart- I used a North American wildlife book in reference to painting this chart. I am assuming these are the most common acorns found in North America, even though it leaves out some of the ones I am used to in Florida. I also learned that the sizes of acorns from the same type of Oak can vary a lot (especially depending on what part of the country it's in) so I didn't worry about accuracy in size. But I love it! Acorns are so cool.

Continuing my series of bird classification charts for Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, here are the flycatchers, swifts, swallows, etc... Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Chimney Swift Cliff Swallow Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Gray Kingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Northern Rough-Winged Swallow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Western Kingbird

I have finished a new Mushroom Chart, I am calling it "The Morbid Mushrooms" because for this one I picked the ones with the creepiest names out there. I love having collections of paintings so I did this one in thinking it could compliment my previous Mushroom Chart, or the Carnivorous Plants Chart! Featuring... Witch's Hat Corpse Finder Deadly Dapperling Poison Pie Destroying Angel Deadly Parasol Fool's Mushroom Red-staining Inocybe Devil's Urn The Sickener Dead Man's Fingers Deadly Webcap Autumn Skull Cap I end with the first Mushroom Chart I did a while back. Both will be available as prints...