Hummingbird in flight over lupines done in HB graphite pencils
Current wip .. a bit of HB pencil work watching World Series .. Trying to hang onto Summer with baseball, lupines and a hummingbird π
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Hummingbird in flight over lupines done in HB graphite pencils
Current wip .. a bit of HB pencil work watching World Series .. Trying to hang onto Summer with baseball, lupines and a hummingbird π
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Baltimore Oriole momentarily perched on a branch beneath a canopy of maple leaves .. leaves done in colored pencil .. Oriole and branch painted in watercolor and gouache
Current wip β¦ wrapping up details on the Baltimore Oriole piece for the Bakken Museumβs Galaβ¦ this piece will be in the auction for their fundraiser October 10th .. so important to give back so we can all move forward and inspire π
Watercolor / Gouache / Polychromos
Fabriano Artistico HP
The crow on watch peering over the left shoulder perched on a post with the number 13 etched ito it with a bit of creeping charlie climbing the post .. background in shades of blue and purple with a moonrise to the right
βThe Sentinel on 13β
Image size 13 x 9
Watercolor / Gouache on Fabriano HP
Intensely Loyal and Remakably Intelligent, Crows and the Corvid Birds are amazingly social with lifelong companions .. This character is on watch for the rest of the flock π
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Thank you Prasad π
08.05.2025 23:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Barn Swallow flying over farm fields .. Pileated Woodpecker scaling a moss covered tree trunk.
β¦ and so it begins
Celebrating Birds Exhibition opens Friday May 9th in my first solo exhibition .. 15 pieces
Bakken Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Soaring Barn Swallow over the farmlands of the Midwest ..
βFly Byβ
Barn Swallow
Image size 10.5β x 12β
Watercolor / Gouache
Polychromos background
Fabriano Artistico HP
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WIP .. work in progress this weekend for the May 9th opening of the show at the Bakken Museum β¦ see you all there .. should look great in a Picture Woods Frame π
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First solo show .. Bakken Museum .. Recent Works by Steve Krause .. shown with a White Breasted Nuthatch in a Mountain Paper Birch Tree branch .. with Fall leaves
First Solo Show π
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Today, more than ever, we need to fill the @bsky.app with this. What an appalling scene in the White House. #boycottUSA #slavaUkraini Zelensky is the hero and those other '2' are cowards and bullies. #Shameful
28.02.2025 18:27 β π 191 π 58 π¬ 2 π 3Thanks TS π
22.02.2025 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you !!
22.02.2025 18:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you Chad !
22.02.2025 18:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sandhill crane lifting its head to the sky in a call .. watercolor / gouache
βLift Up Your Voiceβ
Sandhill Crane
Image Size 5.5β x 8β
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
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Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.
16.02.2025 04:45 β π 42465 π 5877 π¬ 423 π 171Watercolor painting of a peregrine faclon standing on a rock, seen from the side. The falcon is looking up. The background is white. The painting is highly detailed
Peregrine Falcon on a rock
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2β³ x 11.4β³ (31 x 29 cm)
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Remember what the Bishop said
23.01.2025 13:02 β π 11851 π 1816 π¬ 139 π 49Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Photo Β© Enrique Shore
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers
Watercolor / gouache painting of a white breasted nuthatch hanging upside down on a birch tree branch surrounded by fall colored leaves .. image size 6β x 7β
Happy New Year !!
Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !!
Image size 6β x 7β
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
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24.12.2024 02:51 β π 808 π 97 π¬ 20 π 4Pileated Woodpecker scaling a moss cover oak tree
Pileated Woodpecker
Commission
Watercolor / Gouache
Image size 7 x 10
Fabriano HP
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American Goldfinch perched on top of a pink coneflower with washed background
βHanging onto Summerβ
Goldfinch on Coneflower
Commission
5β x 5β
Watercolor / Gouache
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Works on paper
Matted Images roughly 5.5β x 6.5β
Colored Pencil drawings
Colored Pencil drawing of an American Goldfinch on the stem of a flowering thistle
Goldfinch on Thistle
Matted Image Size 5.5β x 6.5β
Colored Pencil Polychromos
Super excited to be framing up the beginnings of my May 2025 show at the Bakken Museum with some drawings.
βOn a Wing and a Prayerβ
Works on Paper .. gonna be as busy as a chickadee.
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Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight descending on an open Tiger Lily with olive colored wash background.
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Painted this for the Bakken Museum Permanent Art Collection
Image size 6β x 9β
Fabriano HP 9β x 12β
Watercolor / Gouache
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Thank you ..yes .. and β¦ actually itβs framed and part of the curated collection now.
28.11.2024 02:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It does take a bit .. I usually only get to work on it for a couple hours at a time .. which does make it a longer process .. but βitβs all about the journeyβ ππ»
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