Practicing Birds

Since I sit and devote so much time watching birds at our feeders, I decided to sketch and later paint birds for a yearly project our small forum group tries to accomplish each year.  My selected subject is birds and/or wildlife. 

This is on cartridge paper using Staedtler Mars pencils 2B and 6B with a little blending with a paper stump.

For viewing, the image is a bit darker than the actual pencil sketch plus my photography skills are not the best battling white balance issues.  One day I might just get the hang of photographing my art......correctly.