Scarlet Tanagers — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil with the enormous prairie sky

with the enormous prairie sky overhead

but no less carefully observed

pink lateral band

the iridescent green head reflecting the light

positioned to break up the fawn's outline in dappled light

Scarlet Tanagers — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil with the enormous prairie skyTwo Scarlet Tanagers in a spring maple a breeding male in full scarlet and black plumage perched above, a second male in transitional plumage launching from below, wings open, the extraordinary orange red of the moulting bird even more vivid than the pure scarlet of the adult. This 1985 coloured pencil study shows two states of the same bird simultaneously: the complete breeding plumage and the partial autumn dress. The Scarlet Tanager is one of the