Feathered Friends

This week we sketched at Your Basic Bird, an institution in the Elmwood district of Berkeley for decades.  While Claudia and the knowledgeable staff gave advice to customers and clipped the birds' toenails, we drew.  Birds are surprisingly good models!

Colored pencil

Your Basic Bird, Too

I can't resist looking at birds, even birds in cages.
Their squawks were ear-shattering. Guess I'd squawk, too after twenty-three years in a cage. (Sorry, I didn't mean to end this blog post on a downer note, and no, don't ever invite me to the zoo.)