Winter Birds in Colored Pencil
Not all birds fly south for the winter.
Welcome to the Winter Birds course! We’ll draw four lovely year-round residents: a black-capped chickadee on a chokecherry branch, a tufted titmouse on a pine bough, and two very different - but equally beautiful - northern cardinals. The male and female cardinal will each get their own lesson. There is also a lesson devoted to drawing the spiral symmetry of pine cones.
All levels of art experience (or no experience at all) are welcome. If you prefer to focus only on colored pencil, not sketching, I also provide an optional preliminary drawing for each bird.
Here’s there supply list:
2B drawing pencil, any brand
kneaded art eraser
a basic set of Prismacolors or other good-quality colored pencils (be sure to include a dark brown, such as Burnt Umber or Chocolate)
Ordinary copy paper for working out your rough sketch
Heavier paper such as cardstock or Bristol vellum drawing paper for your colored pencil drawing
Let’s begin with the Chickadee:
