Thursday Art Date With Rain: "Birds and the Sky"

Rain's art theme for this week 

inspired me to finally finish 

one of my long-neglected assignments 

from the "Art of Coloured Pencils" 

class I took in the Fall of 2019.

Our subject was a cheery little warbler 

of some description or another 

(hey, I'm no birder, LOL!)

Here's the assignment at 

various stages of completion:

A word about the twigs --

the three completed ones

in this next photo

are meant to be bold, clear

and in the foreground.

All the rest are meant to

be fuzzy, indistinct

and in the background.

I'll let you judge whether I 

successfully accomplished that 

in the final version.

This is where I left off --

And here's the final version,

created from 17 different

colours of Prismacolor pencils.

I'm not thrilled with the background twigs

but I'm happier with them than with that

goddamn leaf beside the bird's body.

It's the worst fuckin' leaf

in the history of leaves

and I ain't lyin'.

But before everyone tells me

I'm too self-critical,

just let me say that

I'm very happy with 

my rendition of the bird

and the foreground twigs.

[Art and photographs © Debra She Who Seeks, 

December 2019 and January 2021]