Backyard Birds - Collection 6

I’ve added a NEW set of note cards to my shop. The pack includes eight cards and envelopes. Each card features my illustration of a bird. There is a blurb about the bird on the back of the card.

NEW set of note cards, Backyard Birds - Collection 6.

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This note card set and many others may be purchased from my shop and from my Etsy shop, BradSneedStudio.

Upland Game Birds Note Cards

I’ve added a NEW set of note cards to my shop. The pack includes eight cards and envelopes. Each card features an illustration of an upland game bird. There is a blurb about the bird on the back of the card.

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NEW set of note cards —Upland Game Birds.

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This set features a Greater sage-grouse, American woodcock, Mourning dove, Northern bobwhite, Ring-necked pheasant, California quail, Wild turkey, and Greater prairie chicken.

This note card set and many others may be purchased from my shop and from my Etsy shop, BradSneedStudio.

Lucky Russell -30 Years

Lucky Russell was published 30 years ago, this fall! It was my second illustrated book and my first as an author. I’m a better painter now, but I’m still happy with how the book turned out. Best of all, looking at it again, brings back the joy I felt when holding it for the first time so long ago.

Jitterbird

The Ruby-crowned kinglet is a a tiny, (not much bigger than a hummingbird) active backyard visitor. It skitters about the foliage, flicking its wings constantly, like a water droplet on a hot skillet. It’s a challenge to track this little firecracker when using binoculars. I created this abstract painting inspired by this energetic little bird.

The original painting, Jitterbird - Ruby-crowned Kinglet, is in a private collection.

A Study in Red

The Northern cardinal is a year-round resident where I live, and frequent visitor to our backyard pond and feeders. It’s one of my favorite birds, and so not surprising perhaps, the subject for several of my paintings. In this latest work, Red Bird - Northern Cardinal, I tease apart those very cardinalesque attributes -chunky orange beak, angular crest, the male’s black mask and high-chroma scarlet feathers- and apply them to the canvas in a way that I hope is pleasing to the eye and reflective of my fondness for this lovely and cheerful song bird.

This original acrylic painting is available for purchase from my shop.

Butterfly Note Cards

NEW in my shop! Eight folded note cards, each featuring my illustration of a butterfly. Blank on the inside. Fun fact on the back. Envelopes included.

Bird Notes

I’ve added a new set of Backyard Birds notecards to my Etsy Shop. The pack includes eight cards and envelopes. Each card features an illustration a different species. On the back of the card is a blurb about the bird.

My latest collection of Backyard Birds notecards.

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This 5th edition of my Backyard Birds series features a Brown Creeper, American Redstart, House Sparrow, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Summer Tanager, White-crowned Sparrow, Gray Catbird, and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.

Check out Backyard Birds Collections 1 through 4, as well as sets of Waders, Ducks, Corvids, Woodpeckers, Owls, Birds of the Flinthills, and Hummingbirds. Birds aren’t your thing? Take a peek at my set of Damsels & Dragons notecards, showcasing colorful illustrations of dragonflies and damselflies!

All notecard sets may be purchased from my Etsy shop, BradSneedStudio.

Encountering John Brown

It was super gratifying to create illustrations of John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and others for the ENCOUNTERING JOHN BROWN exhibit on display at the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, KS until November 6th. Kudos to the creative team at Overland Traveling Exhibits for producing this informative examination of Brown’s life and legacy as seen through the eyes of those who knew him.