Nesting before winter

Ohmygod, I spent a gazillion hours getting my computer and scanner to talk to each other but if this posts, I've finally done it and life can resume!

I painted this red-winged blackbird in my watercolor class this afternoon (as the Fed-Ex truck with my new scanner on board drove by the window). I forgot to bring my Pitt pens but had a black pastel pencil so I used that on the edges and to feather things out, so to speak.  I like the effect so it was a happy accident.


It was great to be watercoloring again. I've been attending class faithfully but things haven't been turning out and I've been distracted by my mixed media class and all the commotion at home getting the exterior of our house painted and simple landscaping completed before the winter rain.   And I guess this would officially be mixed media too since I used watercolor, watercolor pencils, graphite and pastel.