Webit was this imaginative notion that has been the inspiration for many of vicki’s animal and bird portraits. Once you’ve seen a vicki sawyer painting, there is no. “if birds can build nests, then they can make hats!”. My works are seriously painted, but whimsical. with over 2,500 paintings of birds and other animals wearing. Websawyer’s most recent work is a portrait of a tufted titmouse, a bust painted to human scale. “if you saw this bird on the street, it would be six feet tall,” she says, laughing.