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Travieso - Scarlet Macaw Painting
Watercolor & Pen and Ink Painting
Travieso, is a beautiful smart Scarlet Macaw. His name means mischievous, naughty, puckish, frolicsome, roguish, playful, willful, wanton, prankish, wayward, impish, high-spirited … just to name a few of the Spanish translations, he earns them all and that’s not his full name...
I painted this watercolor of Travieso, while living in Roatan. The people and animals I meet inspire my paintings, still it is the animals I paint.
Travieso is a talented bird, and close to 30 years old when I drew this portrait of him in my sketch book, living with the kindest life-long guardian in her 80’s. He had remodeled their house piece by piece… he did not like square corners. One afternoon while having “tea” (Gin and Tonic) with his sweet guardian, she said, “the one thing he has never touched in all his years is my Geraniums.” As she said it, he looked at us giving her a “you mean these?” look and then at the flowers (as if it had never occurred to him) and instantly reached over and snapped off a branch, maybe just to see what he had been missing and no doubt to cause a fuss.
Then she called him by his full name...
To me, Travieso represents a moment in time and gives me a smile. Living on a little island off the coast of Honduras where coconuts and fish were free and birds ran the roost. This original watercolor has sold but it is available in a variety of other ways - please see the side bar...
I painted this watercolor of Travieso, while living in Roatan. The people and animals I meet inspire my paintings, still it is the animals I paint.
Travieso is a talented bird, and close to 30 years old when I drew this portrait of him in my sketch book, living with the kindest life-long guardian in her 80’s. He had remodeled their house piece by piece… he did not like square corners. One afternoon while having “tea” (Gin and Tonic) with his sweet guardian, she said, “the one thing he has never touched in all his years is my Geraniums.” As she said it, he looked at us giving her a “you mean these?” look and then at the flowers (as if it had never occurred to him) and instantly reached over and snapped off a branch, maybe just to see what he had been missing and no doubt to cause a fuss.
Then she called him by his full name...
To me, Travieso represents a moment in time and gives me a smile. Living on a little island off the coast of Honduras where coconuts and fish were free and birds ran the roost. This original watercolor has sold but it is available in a variety of other ways - please see the side bar...