
Welcoming Spring

by Lois Bryan
Title
Welcoming Spring
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Hand Painting
Description
So excited that "Welcoming Spring" won the 2/25/2023 contest "Digital Paintings 4" held by the Digital Paintbrush Group! Many thanks to contest administrator, Taphath Foose, and everyone who voted for my image!!! Congratulations to the other winners and all who entered … beautiful work!
A brilliant orange and black Eastern Towhee perches on the branch of a flowering tree, singing his love songs to and welcoming spring … enjoying the softness of the season! His trademark red eye is on the alert for a pretty lady Towhee who just might be in the neighborhood.
A traditional ground feeder, seeing a towhee perched on a branch isn't a common sight. The truth is, this combination of elements, some based on one of my own, original (not from stock or public domain) birdie shots is blended with my own original, from the imagination digitally hand-created paintings.
In truth, the poor thing was actually hunkered down in a comfy, hollowed out snowdrift on our deck during a heck of a blizzard several years ago. (But plenty of his favorite sunflower seeds were right behind and above him, so no worries!)
Welcoming Spring is a new version of an old favorite, Singing Eastern Towhee (which is also available on my website here). "Welcoming Spring" has a few more fun embellishments.
This image was hand painted, digitally, in Corel Painter using one of my own original (not from stock or public domain) photographs as a starting point.
NOT created by AI - Artificial Intelligence.
Fine art as well as product purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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February 9th, 2023
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Comments (65)

Jenny Revitz Soper 25 Days Ago
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your artwork on the homepage of The Artists Group, 3/01/2023! You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!

Theresa Ruby 29 Days Ago
Congrats on your 1st place win Lois!! Woohoo!! So pretty and so fitting for Spring!!

Hartmut Jager 29 Days Ago
🌸 - LOIS - CONGRATULATIONS for Your rightfully FIRST PLACE Contest Win ! - 🏆 -

Angela Davies 29 Days Ago
Congrats on the well deserved contest win, loved your description. You must have painted him in his dream world on that winter day. LF

Taphath Foose 29 Days Ago
CONGRATULATIONS on your FIRST PLACE win in the Digital Paintings 4 contest!!! Beautiful work, Lois!!! 😊

Lori Pittenger
Congratulations your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 2/21/2023! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery and add it to the features log and catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work!

Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. l/f 2/19/23

Carolyn Rosenberger
Congratulations on your beautifully done digital "Best of the Best "feature in WF&S group! L&F