parrots in the park

I took the dog to the dog park today, just ahead of yet more rain. While she dashed around, I drew in my journal. My drawing skills are really lame, so I drew something I knew I wouldn't get too frustrated with - birds. Several of them, stacked on one another, and colored in fantasy shades with colored pencils. Once I got home, I went over the colors with my hotsy totsy Copics to smooth out the pencil marks and shade them a bit. Very enjoyable hour except for the dog drool on the way home.

It would have been much easier to draw the bottom one first, then start the second one where he left off, but no, I drew the top one first, then had to fit in the others on down the page. Good old hind sight. Played with their eyes a bit, looking this way and that. The background just looks sort of blah in the picture, but it's a pale orange with a few spots, prepared a few weeks ago during a painting binge on the kitchen table.