Watercolor Birds: Wood Stork Fail

I decided to draw a wood stork today, but I'm not too pleased with it. Besides my lack of watercolor painting skills, I am disappointed by the basic drawing. I misrepresented too many aspects of the bird, like the legs (which tilt too much to the left) and the general shape of the body. But this is what this project is for, right? Practicing and learning. So there! :)

Watercolor Birds

I just decided that I should try to improve my watercolor skills by painting one bird every day. We'll see how that works, but here's today's bird:

This is the first in the challenge, but the second watercolor bird I've made. The absolutely first one I painted was this Eastern towhee for a birthday card, made about ten days ago:

For the challenge I am trying to keep it under 1 hour, but I went over a bit today on the toucan. Backgrounds are hard! And in general, as you can see, I still have a long way to go to master this medium. But it's fun :)

Illustration Friday: Prince

I know, I know, I was supposed to make it all about Prince. But I just couldn't help but think about the other prince. And since I'm working on designing 100 somethings (#100somethings), and my somethings are bunnies, I figured I might as well make the Little Prince as a bunny.

Illustration Friday: Wood

Silly, I don't chuck wood! I'd much rather eat your garden.

Turns out woodchucks (also known as groundhogs, Marmota monax) got their name from the Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, wuchak, as Wikipedia tells me.

Illustration Friday: Tool

A quieter (and cuter) type of leaf blower.

Illustration Friday: Sparkle

Illustration Friday: Wisdom

Beware of stereotypes. Yes, he's an owl. But does it necessarily mean he's smart?

Illustration Friday: Dragon #2

A destructive bunny dragon

Illustration Friday: Dragon

Why is everyone running away?

Illustration Friday: Childhood

Cotton candy never fails to take me back to childhood.