Please note that all images on this site are copyrighted by the artist and may not be reproduced in any manner. Original Paintings: Birds


Janet currently has no bird original watercolors for sale, but . . .
she offers wonderful original stone lithographs that feature birds:

Great Horned Owl -Original Stone Lithograph

Great Horned Owl -Hand-pulled original stone lithographic print by Janet L. Wissmann.
Edition size: 12 s/n prints on Rives BFK gray rag. $145 includes double rag matting of dark olive over black. Finished matted size 16x16". If you have any questions about this print or if you would like to buy it, please call or email, as this item is not yet listed in the online-ordering shopping basket area. Visa and Mastercard are accepted. inquire to purchase »

Matted print: dark olive over black; archival materials. Click picture to enlarge.


Original Hand-pulled Stone Lithograph
Three Red-tailed Hawks

Three Red-tailed Hawks -Original hand-pulled stone lithograph by Janet L. Wissmann $150. unmatted print. Three Red-tail portraits, finely executed in lithographic pencil on limestone then printed onto 100% cotton white d'Arches print paper. If you have any questions about this print or if you would like to buy it, please inquire » as it is not listed in the online-ordering shopping basket area. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.
Click to enlarge and see fantastic detail.


Puffins -Original Stone Lithograph


Puffins -Original hand-pulled stone lithograph by Janet L. Wissmann.
Edition 6 signed & numbered prints, plus two Artist's Proofs, on d'Arches cotton rag paper. Image size 7.5 x 10.25 inches; paper size 8 x 11.25 inches. $100. If you like stone lithographs, read more about this little print below. If you have any questions about this print or if you would like to buy it, please call or email, as it is not yet listed in the online-ordering shopping basket area. Visa and Mastercard are accepted. inquire to purchase »

More about the Lithograph, Puffins
Regarding Puffins above, artist Janet Wissmann writes,
"I used a variety of media to indicate texture and darkness of the volcanic rock in this little stone lithograph showing three Atlantic Puffins perched on a rock ledge.
"First, I dribbled and spattered liquid mask onto the stone into places I wanted to keep white, including the cutouts of the three little puffins. A soft lithographic crayon dragged sideways across and down the paper lent the bold jagged strokes, and tusche (an india-ink like substance) was painted with a brush into the darkest blacks.


"Then I scratched and scraped the drawn stone surface with a razor blade to remove the threadlike areas around the ledge so that it would stand out a bit more from the deep black behind it. I washed away the mask that I had applied earlier. This mask prevented any of the media from touching the stone, so the result was spots that would hold no ink during the inking process later and thus would appear white in the final prints. Finally, I used a lithographic pencil and tusche to fill in the details in the tiny puffins."
Be sure to click on the pictures to see the details.

It is true that Janet Wissmann's experience with watercolors helped her in creating this charming little print; watercolor forces the artist to do some planning before beginning a piece. Most of these prints even have a deckle edge or two, just like an original watercolor painting might--a nice touch that shows the print is hand-pulled. If you have any questions about this print or if you would like to buy it, please call or email, as it is not yet listed in the online-ordering shopping basket area. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.





Commissioned Portraits of Birds
Janet describes the process of painting this multi-bird painting:
"As a watercolorist who often paints furry animals, I am always delighted to have a chance to use some of the brighter colors on the palette when it comes to painting the psittacines many people keep as pets. The Yellow-fronted Amazon at left required the use of sap green, Hooker's green, and cadmium yellow, while the Scarlet Macaw gave me some experience with cadmium red and alizarin crimson.

"In addition to color, the texture of feathers is also a nice change from that of fur. And the placement of feathers, as well as their shapes, is often challenging: feathers grow in tracts, and each part of a bird's body has feathers of a particular contour and size.

"In order to show all the colors of this magnificent Scarlet Macaw, I decided to paint him from the back. The foreshortening of the wing feathers added a bit of drama to the composition, and the tipping of his head allowed his face to be shown as well. By painting him in this pose, I got my chance to use just about all the colors in the rainbow. Colors here included cadmium red, alizarin crimson, sap green, Hooker's green, cerulean blue and ultramarine blue. There's a touch of cad yellow in there too.

"The Blue and Gold Macaw's pose came about out of necessity. This bird is a feather-plucker! As many pet bird owners know, some pet birds develop a behavior disorder where they pick out their own feathers, a disorder they often have for their whole lives. This macaw's entire breast was bare of feathers! So, in order to show his "best side", I had to paint him from the back; the other option would have been to paint in those missing front feathers. But if I had done that, would the owner have recognized her own bird? Possibly not!

"And then there was the silly African Gray Parrot. Yes, it was pretty much back to mundane grays and blue-grays for this one. But this bird made up for it by being a real character. It turns out that one of his favorite things was to hold an ice cube in his foot. Right. No, left. No, right. Oh, I have no idea why he enjoyed it, but it did serve to give his humans a source of constant amusement. So this is the way I portrayed him in the painting.

"While the painting was still in the compositional stage, the owner added one more bird to her flock. She sent me a photo of the fledgling's profile, so I added it at the bottom of the painting. I think the final composition turned out quite nicely."





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THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN SOLD.

Original Watercolor Painting
Sun Conures (SOLD)

Sun Conures Original Watercolor Painting
This painting has been SOLD.

More about the Painting, Sun Conures
Sun Conures -Original Watercolor Painting
Wow! There is nothing as bright and colorful as a Sun Conure! Two Sun Conures at the zoo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, inspired this watercolor painting by Janet Wissmann. Birds like this prompt Janet to paint with colors that she rarely gets to use with dog and horse art: cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, and sap green. She had some fun with textures, dropped wet in wet, and encouraged the very dynamic payne's gray to bleed and blossom a bit.

Click on the picture at left to view an enlarged image. It's only then that you will be able to appreciate the texture and flow of the various paints. Note the dark blue in the upper right corner. This is Payne's grey -- a mixture of ivory black and ultramarine blue. The ultramarine blue component is well known for its reactions while painting wet in wet, and when a bit of pure water is dropped into an area of wet Payne's gray the artist is rarely disappointed. The intensity, size, and direction of the blooms can't be predicted with precision. This unpredictability is one of the main facets of transparent watercolor's timeless appeal. If you look even more closely, you can see a bit of the lovely granulation for which Payne's gray is also famous.
True to form, there is no white paint in this watercolor painting. Even the white of the tail feathers' midveins are just the white of the watercolor paper left unpainted.
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Sepia Red-Tailed Hawk -Original Stone Lithograph

Red-Tailed Hawk -Original hand-pulled stone lithograph
Edition size: 9 s/n on Rives BFK cream rag. Print $100. Matted print $145. Printed with sepia-colored ink on cream d'Arches rag paper.
This edition has sold out.
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Red Tailed Hawk original stone lithograph

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Janet L. Wissmann, Watercolorist
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin __ph. (608)624-5511 _9am-9pm Central Time Zone
www.janetwissmann.com



















































































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