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Stylized Bird with Long Tail Feathers
A stylized drawing of a bird with orange and red coloring, featuring long, flowing tail feathers. The bird is depicted against a light blue, circular background, suggesting a moon or sun.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Stylized Bird with Long Tail Feathers
A colorful drawing of a bird with outstretched wings and long, flowing tail feathers. The bird is depicted in shades of red, orange, and yellow, with a light blue circular shape behind its body.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Colorful Bird Illustration on White Paper
A colored pencil illustration of a bird with red, orange, and yellow plumage, featuring a long, flowing tail. The bird is depicted in flight against a light blue circular background on a white sheet of paper.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Stylized Bird with Moon Illustration
An illustration of a bird with red and orange plumage, long tail feathers, and outstretched wings, set against a light blue circular shape resembling a moon. The drawing has a black outline.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Lone Tree at Sunset with Birds
This watercolor painting depicts a single leafy tree standing in a green field beneath streaked bands of orange, gold, and rose sky, with layered blue-violet hills behind and a small flock of birds crossing the upper left. The wash work is controlled and graded, letting the sky carry the drama while the foreground stays quiet.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
Digital Painting of a Bluebird on a Branch
A digital painting depicts a bluebird perched on a brown branch. The bird has blue feathers on its head and back, orange on its chest, and white on its belly, set against a soft, gradient background of light green and orange hues.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Man in plaid shirt by water feature
A man in a short-sleeved plaid shirt stands outdoors next to a body of water with fountains. In the background, there are trees, a light-colored wall, and a sign on a grassy slope with birds.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Ellie Xanda piano close_1.2.8
Two individuals are visible indoors, one on the left wearing a dark top with a white collar and a name tag, and another partially visible on the right. A dark, bird-like sculpture on a stand is positioned in the foreground on the right side of the image.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
Development of Emotional Contagion in the Human Life Span
Ch. 2›Literature Review
Emotional contagion occurs in all mammals, including rodents, as well as other types of animals such as birds ([Hatfield et al., 1992](/dissertation/references)). In humans it may take place in utero. It certainly is evident in the first days of an infant‘s life (Iacoboni, 2009; McDonald & Messinger (n.d.), Shamay-Tsoory, 2011).
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
Robin on a Winter Branch
This watercolor painting depicts an American robin perched among crossing bare branches, its rust-orange breast set against a pale blue and lavender wash of distant twigs and buds. The foreground branches are painted in firmer brown and grey strokes, pulling the bird forward from the diffuse background.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
Phoenix Rising Before a Pale Moon
This colored pencil and ink drawing depicts a stylized phoenix in flight, its crimson body and flame-colored wings spread against a soft blue-grey disc. Long ribboned tail feathers in red, orange, and yellow trail behind the bird and off the lower left of the sheet.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
How can I live a happy life without considering medication?
Happiness is not well defined. You need to define it for yourself. And that definition changes as you experience life. With or without medication, happiness comes when we are at peace with ourselves, which is difficult if your expectations are too high (idealism and perfectionism), as you know. I find happiness in the smallest things.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026 · Quora