Taking Flight

Oil On Canvas

12x12 inches

2026

There is something deeply hopeful about the moment just before flight:  wings stretched wide, the world below still, and everything ahead open and full of possibility. This painting captures that singular instant, a great blue heron poised at the edge of the sky, ready to rise.

Soft pinks, warm yellows, and clear blues wash across the canvas in a palette that feels joyful and luminous. Where the heron series often speaks of stillness and patience, this piece carries a different energy: one of optimism, freedom, courage, and grace.

A painting that brings warmth, movement, hope, and joy into any space.

Painted with Winsor & Newton and Gamblin oils on stretched canvas, finished with a gloss varnish for richness and long-term protection. Framed in a solid maple wood floater frame, wired and ready to hang.

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