Night Heron in Tamarind Tree Baby Onesie

Black-crowned Night-Herons are common in wetlands across North America, but because of their eating habits they are difficult to spot. As their name suggests, these birds do most of their feeding at night and spend much of the day hunched among leaves and branches at the water’s edge. Evening and dusk are good times to see these herons flying out to foraging grounds.“Night Heron in Tamarind Tree,” is a hand-painted digital and mixed media image created in Spadecaller’s Florida studio.

Spadecaller is an experienced traditional artist, who creates original hand-painted digital images and photo composite artworks. In the late fifties at eight years old, Spadecaller started formal training in traditional oil painting.Through considerable personal sacrifice, his mother nurtured his artistic talents and provided him with the tools to launch his creative journey. Spadecaller attended The School of Visual Arts in New York City (1970-71), and during the 70's up until the late 80's, he exhibited acrylic and oils in Montreal and New York. Due to the onset of chronic illness in the late nineties and with the advent of image editing software, he turned to creating digital hand painted images and photographic art. Artwork by...