Looking for Love – Wild Turkey Framing:Unframed and the colors are bright

and the colors are bright and saturated

and it provides the setting for my first painting of the epic canyon

titled Proud To Be An American

ponds and a wetland

It is not uncommon to find several bucks in the vicinity of a doe nearing estrous

Looking for Love – Wild Turkey Framing:Unframed and the colors are brightWild turkeys have keen eyesight and excellent hearing. The gobblers also have the ability to change the color of their largely featherless head, sometimes in a matter of seconds. Much of the year the gobblers head is a reddish color, but during the spring mating season, it can also turn various combinations of red, white and blue. The more excited he is the more intense the colors can be especially when strutting. In this painting the spring forest is