Silver Lining
The silver lining of the past week’s snow and cold is the flock of juncos that are hanging out on our back porch every day. We put up an extra bird feeder there to help them through the freezing weather and heavy snow. Unfortunately, my perch for sketching by our back porch door has proven rather drafty— the birds are surviving the chill far better than I am.
Sketched in pencil in a Handbook Journal Co. sketchbook with 140lb cold press watercolor paper, Micron 005 black pen for the text, and watercolors- ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, cobalt blue, and yellow ochre.
Drawn In 
Love, love juncos and especially the chiseled look of your handsome and perky and puffed up birds! And that’s quite an impressive list of winter visitors! How delighted your birds must be with the extra food and attention . And 14” of snow! There must be mush more by now after that snow bomb ?
Your gorgeous work continues to wow and amaze! Stay warm and safe. Our juncos send their “chirps!”
Always a delight to see your renderings of feathered friends, and this is no exception! Here in my part of CT, we are still trying to recover from our 18” of the lovely white blanket we received last week. Stay warm❤️
I always love seeing your spreads and this is no exception. You do beautiful work that reveals your eye for beauty and your skill in rendering it on the page. I appreciate hearing what materials you’re using. Something we’re always interested in!
I love the way you almost abstracted the juncos’ shape here. Did you know that they were called Snowbirds? I remember reading that way back and thinking it was a good name.