Winter’s Come and Gone

Featuring the Northern Cardinal, NOCA or Cardinalis cardinalis. Titled after a favorite Gillian Welch song that begins “Hey little redbird”, where visits from overwintering songbirds serve as good omens, marking time and bringing promise for the future.

Painted from a personal photograph of Cardinalis cardinalis as reference, taken on my family’s New Jersey farm.

Original: 11x15”, watercolor and gouache on illustration board.