JOHN COSTIN STUDIO

The Roseate Spoonbill is frequently seen in Florida especially in the Tampa Bay region where they have a large population. Tampa has the largest nesting population of Spoonbills in the country, so I am fortunate to see them frequently. One of the few pink birds in North America. This etching is created using a single copper plate printed in black. All the colors you see are entirely done by hand with transparent watercolors. Because of the application of the watercolors, each one is unique. It is also part of a larger etching, “Florida Bird Series III”.