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"Widowbird in the Reeds"

An impressionist digital oil painting on a textured canvas of a male long-tailed widowbird perched on a reed among grassland wildflowers. Widowbirds can have tail feathers as long as 20 inches, and they can't fly when it rains because of their tail's length! I used pastel shades of yellow, blue, green, black and coral in my African wildlife portrait. Please visit my "The Zoo" art collection to see more of my animal artwork.

Copyright 2022 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...