Bird 13: Sulfur-Bellied Flycatcher

Okeeeee... almost 3 weeks later and this is the best I could come up with:



So. This drawing is all about getting BEYOND it. Getting something done that you know you need to get done, and getting it out of the way -- hopefully on to a brighter tomorrow when I go back to the excitement of drawing a new bird out of my jar and getting it down on paper the same day, rather than sitting on it for near 3 weeks, dwelling on how little time I have to draw anymore, stressing out that I have no time to draw, freaking out that I feel like I have already forgotten to draw.

So. Today's bird (the three-week-ago bird) is the Sulfur Bellied Flycatcher, which is actually a totally cool bird we've only seen a couple of times down in southern Arizona way up in the tops of the trees, completely unmistakable with their bright orange underparts and brown streaked backs. I don't have much else to say about this wonderful amazing bird other than the fact that I'm extremely relieved to have something - anything - down on paper so I can move on to the next bird. Amen!

Day 12: Gilded Flicker

Mechanical pencil, 8x10 on sketch paper

Here is another bird we see so much in our backyard that we tend to not take many pictures of it. But they are pretty eye-catching with their polka-dotted suits, yellow-tinged tails and bright red slashes across the cheeks. Plus they have this distinctively loud, panicked-siren-shriek they make whenever they fly in attack the hummingbird feeder. You can imagine that our tiny little hummingbirds make way for them when they dive in.