I always enjoy watching the wild birds who visit our feeder. We get a wide variety of visitors, but there are always the regulars, such as juncoes, chickadees, sparrows, purple finches, and, of course the our favorite--the colorful red cardinals. I occasionally see various woodpeckers (such as Northern Flickers), but it's rare. I had a short amount of time this afternoon to sit down and attempt to capture some
very quick sketches of these little guys; the sketches are really just gesture drawings since the birds are in such constant movement. They don't seem to like to strike a pose for very long... I used a 6B Derwent pencil for the drawings and added a little watercolor here and there (mosly for color notes) using my homemade sketcher's box pictured here:
I always enjoy watching the wild birds who visit our feeder. We get a wide variety of visitors, but there are always the regulars, such as juncoes, chickadees, sparrows, purple finches, and, of course the our favorite--the colorful red cardinals. I occasionally see various woodpeckers (such as Northern Flickers), but it's rare. I had a short amount of time this afternoon to sit down and attempt to capture some very quick sketches of these little guys; the sketches are really just gesture drawings since the birds are in such constant movement. They don't seem to like to strike a pose for very long... I used a 6B Derwent pencil for the drawings and added a little watercolor here and there (mosly for color notes) using my homemade sketcher's box pictured here: 
