sketches

Day three hundred and fifty: Some days I guess I’m just in the mood to draw. I’ve always liked a particular photograph I took of a juvenile great blue heron at the mouth of the Madrigal River in Costa Rica, but I’ve never managed to sketch it. I’ve considered it several times, but abandoned the subject before I even started. Once I began to sketch the bird, but quickly scrapped it for something with a simpler background. Tonight, on a relaxing Friday evening, it seemed like the perfect thing to work on. It was as much fun to paint and blend out-of-focus ocean waves, as it was to shape the bird and imitate its feathers and distinct markings.