SWAN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

SWAN original watercolor painting is 5  x 7 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  

How can swallows and sparrows know the thoughts

of the great swan.

Japanese Proverb

GOLD BUTTERFLY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

GOLD BUTTERFLY original watercolor painting is 5 x 6.5 inches on Arches 300 lb paper.

Butterflies are God's confetti, thrown upon the Earth in celebration of His love     

K. D'Angel

TIGER CAT ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR

TIGER CAT original watercolor painting is 9 X 12 inches on Arches 300 lb paper.

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
― Garrison Keillor

PARAKEETS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

PARAKEETS original watercolor is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 300 lb paper.

"Sometimes the smallest things

take up the biggest room in your heart."

Winnie the Pooh

BUTTERFLY ON A THISTLE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

BUTTERFLY ON A THISTLE original watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.     

Nathaniel Hawthorne

JAGUAR ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

JAGUAR original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140lb paper.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.  

 Murray Gell-Mann

YELLOW CROWN HERON ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

YELLOW CROWN HERON original watercolor is 5 x 7 inches.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

 Oscar Wilde

POSING PUPPY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

POSING PUPPY original watercolor,  9 x 12 on 300 lb Arches paper.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Rudyard Kipling

TORTOISE SHELL KITTEN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

TORTOISE SHELL KITTEN original painting is 8 x 10 on Arches 300 lb paper.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk

BOWING SUNFLOWER ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

BOWING SUNFLOWER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. -Thomas Moore

SUNLIT TULIPS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

SUNLIT TULIPS ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.”
― Marianne Williamson

WATER LILY ORIGNAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

WATER LILY original watercolor paper is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Life is 10% what happens to us

and  90% how we react to it.

Dennis Kimbro

WOLF ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

WOLF original watercolor painting is 10 x 9 inches on Arches 300 lb paper.  

The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul. 

~ Barry Lopez

PANSY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

PANSY original watercolor is 6 x 7 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, 

that's for thoughts.  

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

SUNSET OVER WATER ORIGINAL PAINTING

SUNSET OVER WATER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.

“Clouds come floating into my life, 

no longer to carry rain or usher storm, 

but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

HERON ORIIGNAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

HERON original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper and is also from a reference photo by Robert Parrott with permission. 

“If you were silent
Flight of herons on dark sky...
Oh! Autumn snowflakes!”
― Sokan, Japanese Haiku

BUTTERFLY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

BUTTERFLY original watercolor painting is 9 x 12.  This is from one of the wonderful photo references by nephew Robert Parrott with permission. 

I cannot think of any need in childhood 

as strong as the need for a father's protection. 

Sigmund Freud

SANDHILL CRANE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

 SANDHILL CRANE original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.  This is from a photo reference by my nephew Robert Parrott.

“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”

Aldo Leopold

Flamingo Original Watercolor Painting

Flamingo original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches on Arches 140 lb paper.   This is from a reference photo takenby my nephew Robert Parrott in Florida.

"The first difficulty Alice found at first

was in managing her flamingo."

Lewis Carroll

YELLOW FLOWER ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTING

YELLOW FLOWER original watercolor painting is 9 x 12 inches.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844