Bird Art Prints

How I paint the birds

Birds are the subject I return to most. Feathers suit watercolor because both depend on transparency: a wing is built from a few overlapping washes, and the white of the paper does the work of the highlights. I paint many of them wet on wet and add the eye and the beak last, when the paper is dry and the brush is almost dry too. The collection is wide. There are birds of prey such as the osprey, the bald eagle and the peregrine falcon, seabirds like the Atlantic puffin and the blue-footed booby, and rare species such as the kakapo, the shoebill and the Philippine eagle.

Edition, paper and sizes

Every print in this collection is part of a numbered edition of 150, signed by hand. When an edition sells out it is not printed again. You choose between archival pigment inks on museum-quality cotton paper and a framed canvas in a black wooden frame, in 15 sizes from 20 × 26 cm to 100 × 140 cm. I print and check each one in my studio and ship it flat or in a hard tube. If you are new to editions, my guide to limited edition prints explains what the numbers mean.

The same paintings in other forms

Some of these works are still available as original watercolor paintings, one of a kind. The designs also exist as wearable art: bird T-shirts, bird mugs and bird pillow covers.