Birds from Broadkill...

While this isn't exactly a sketch, it took me many sketches to arrive at this point in this painting! 

This is a 24" x 18" watercolor painting of a Blue Heron that I had spotted during  a walk along the water with my Uncle John near Broadkill Beach. 

We were watching a Blue Heron as it hunted for fish, and he kept glancing over at us, almost with a look of annoyance. After a few minutes, he lept up and flew in a wide circle to change his hunting spot- obviously a little disgruntled that we were watching him. This painting is an actual view of this magnificent bird as he flew right past us. Beautiful, prehistoric and effortless flying.

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