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Baby Robin completed

I had fun finishing this cute little robin and I was hoping he would bring spring to my neighborhood. Not to be. We're expecting 2 more days of snow and I have no idea where we are going to put it! but it's February tomorrow!

Robin stage 3

I've worked a little bit more and filling in the feathers. I erase most of the plain pencil as I go, then add the colored pencil bit by bit. I've added some blacks and grays and orangey colors and he's starting to fill out. I add whites both under and on top of the other colors, though it's usually much easier to only add it under. Some colored pencils are slicker than others and the white just just doesn't want to adhere. More tomorrow!

A little beak looking for mom!

A little color

Because they are so helpless, baby robins have quite the camouflage going on! Bits or reddish orange and brown all over their chest and lots of baby feathers with creamy white detail. This may take a bit longer than I had anticipated! But the snow is still coming down, so I may sit and color some today while I'm waiting for it to stop. STOP SNOWING!!! Please?????

It's almost spring!

Well, we are supposed to get 5-7 more inches of snow tomorrow, but I am ever the optimist! January is more than half over so it must be getting close to spring. I was told to go out and get some more sunshine to up my vitamin D. So once I bundled up in 3 shirts, a sweatshirt, 2 scarves, my winter coat, and my big black wool cap, the only thing showing was my nose! I went for the walk, but didn't get much D!!!

So my thoughts naturally turn toward the robin's returning. so I've started a little baby robin, fresh out of the nest and we'll see where that takes us.

Gannets card close-up

Computers tend to get turquoise blue a bit off. It's not that bright, more subtle!

Gannets All Occasion card

While I've been working on Valentines Day cards, I decided to use my gannet pair. It turned into an all occasion card though, because it has that certain peaceful, all occasion, "get well," "sympathy", "how you doin?", "are the kids driving you nuts again today?" kind of feel to it, rather than a lovey dovey Valentines card! Yeah, I know. Nutty artist on board! LOL!! Enjoy!