Winter chickadees on a frosted birch twig

About this Frame TV artwork

A painting of winter chickadees on a frosted birch twig, handled like a naturalist's plate – attentive to the creature, restrained in the background – and composed for a 4K TV display.

Painted as a watercolor, the piece relies on granulating pigment and loose, wet-into-wet edges rather than hard outlines – the texture that reads as paper, not pixels, on a 4K screen. The medium is botanical watercolor.

Try it in a hallway or study Frame with a wide matte – the extra border makes the composition feel gallery-hung. For the most convincing result set Art Mode brightness two or three notches below the default and the colour tone to warm; the painted surface then looks matte rather than lit. It is a winter piece, made to carry the Frame from January until the first blossom scenes go up.

Supplied as a 3840 × 2160 sRGB JPEG, it needs no resizing or cropping for the Samsung Frame, and displays correctly on LG, Sony, TCL and Hisense art-mode TVs too. This design is one of 1,267 in the bundle.