Watercolor- White-tailed Ptarmigan 1
by Cascade Colors
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$150
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16.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Watercolor- White-tailed Ptarmigan 1
Artist
Cascade Colors
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Original watercolor painting, 'White-tailed Ptarmigan 1', by Lynn Cyrus / Cascade Colors. This painting is the first in what I plan to be a small series of paintings depicting these elegant, beautiful birds. The ptarmigan are quail /grouse-like birds of the high elevation alpine in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The White-tailed Ptarmigan lives and nests above treeline near mountain peaks, and in the short summer months acquire a mottled brown plumage. However, once autumn arrives, they begin losing their brown feathers and become almost entirely white in plumage -- this helps camouflage them from potential predators in the snowy months of winter, when they move below treeline. This painting depicts a pair of these birds, still in their winter plumage. I based this piece off of a photograph I took in later winter on the slopes of Mount Bierstadt, in the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies.
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August 23rd, 2015
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