Original Songbird Painting - "Tropical Paradise" 18x24 Countryside Scenes I found the light dancing

I found the light dancing through the hills and horizon to be just perfect and I wanted to make that the focus of this painting

Can you hear it

That’s the season when they feel most present

The sun's rays break through the clouds and mountain peaks

We had just received some snowfall which is a pretty common occurrence around here and something I'm fairly used to but every once in a while these moments arise where I'm just completely taken back and this was one of them

Original Songbird Painting - "Tropical Paradise" 18x24 Countryside Scenes I found the light dancing"Tropical Paradise" About this painting: Bohemian waxwings. You can distinguish these from cedar waxwings by the yellow tips on their primary wing feathers. One day when I was out hiking on a sunny winter day I came across this tree full of these birds. It was along a stream so the steam had created a blanket of ice that covered the trees along it. I watched as they played and fed on this frozen berry filled tree. It almost looks like a tropical