The Northern cardinal is a year-round resident where I live, and frequent visitor to our backyard pond and feeders. It’s one of my favorite birds, and so not surprising perhaps, the subject for several of my paintings. In this latest work, Red Bird - Northern Cardinal, I tease apart those very cardinalesque attributes -chunky orange beak, angular crest, the male’s black mask and high-chroma scarlet feathers- and apply them to the canvas in a way that I hope is pleasing to the eye and reflective of my fondness for this lovely and cheerful song bird.
This original acrylic painting is available for purchase from my shop.