This listing is for an open edition Giclee Print of "Rufous Hummingbird" an original Gouache painting by Erin Linton. Your choice of 6x8, 8x10, or 11x14.

If you ever have the chance to hold a hummingbird gently in your cupped palms - do it and be delighted. Its like holding nothing but a heartbeat in your hands since they weigh so little. Just a tiny vibrating soul. Every year when I see the first copper colored hummingbird dart through my yard I am thrilled to know they have made it back after an arduous migration. How a bird that small makes a 600 mile crossing over the Gulf of Mexico is beyond comprehension. Some even continue onward ending up in Canada for the breeding season. It is truly an astounding little creature. I am in awe.

I paint with Gouache on teabags. After being steeped, the teabags are dried and rinsed. The teabags are then soaked in a base bath, to remove acidity, and then rinsed and dried again. I then apply them in layers on canvas board.

All originals are then scanned, and I create high quality archival prints form those scans.