Maesie Halliday

Stylized black text on a light background reads "Tàcic Halloway" in a decorative font.

NATURAL ILLUSTRATION

A detailed illustration of a red breasted nuthatch perched on a tree trunk.
Painting of a redbreasted nuthatch perched on a lichen-covered branch next to a tree trunk.
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I’ve just completed one of my favorite pieces to date of one of my favorite birds! These feisty little red-breasted nuthatches have been chirping away all through the fall. #nuthatch #redbreastednuthatch #birdart #ornithology #naturalillustrat
Puffin study inspired by @mainecoastislands . Gearing up for a new seabird project, and I can’t wait! #ornithology #birdart #watercolor #watercolorart
Nelson’s Sparrow for my salt marsh series! These little sweeties breed along the coast of Maine, and I was lucky enough to spot one hiding in the marsh grasses earlier this summer! #ornithology #birdart #watercolor #art #artist
This salt marsh scene has been a work in progress for months now, and she’s still got a ways to go!
Sea-run brook trout for my salt marsh series! #searunbrooktrout #art #watercolor #naturalillustration
Common mummichog for a salt marsh series I’m doing for @downeastsalmon this summer!
Smooth cordgrass is the first of a salt marsh series of flora and fauna I’m working on this summer! Found this little sweetie in the cove yesterday morning. #watercolor #watercolourpainting #naturalillustration
Red squirrel study of a little sweetie I spotted on the wood pile #watercolor #watercolorpainting #redsquirrel #redsquirrels
I was so lucky to get a photo of these precocious baby Least flycatchers the day they flew their nest after watching them grow up on my porch over the last three weeks! #watercolorartist #watercolourpainting #leastflycatcher #birdart
Beautiful Fly Agaric found under a spruce tree that I’ve had the pleasure of watching mature over the past week! #watercolor #watercolours #flyagaric #artist #artistsofinstagram