About 9 by 14 inches
Coloured pencil and watercolour pencil on #80 Bainbridge
Original for sale!

I think it's important to point out that I in no way intended for it to be this...purple. Anyway.

Another piece to experiment with coloured pencil media, this time coloured pencils and watercolour pencils on illustration board. I first did a fairly dark layer of watercolour pencils (Faber-Castell), wet it, and then applied layers of Prismacolours over it for the details and texture. At this point the background was white, and I was very tempted to leave it like that. Had the bird been anything but white, I would have left it like that.

So in summery, the background is too dark and too purple (it was laid in with watercolour pencils, wet, and in places blotted with a tissue). I guess the important thing is that I did indeed learn a lot about the medium I was using. I took notes.

And I do really like the branches.