20 February 08
American Robins in Bath Mode
After yesterday’s rain there are plenty of birds taking baths in puddles, in particular one outside my window at work.
I tried to get a sense of the bustle and officiousness of these robins in a colored pencil sketch, above; it didn’t really get it. So I tried a portrait.
Carried on with watercolor and it’s getting closer… after their baths they sit and preen in a tree and chatter away, flicking their tails and feathers in unison…
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Robins are such curious birds to me. Not the most attractive, and so common-place I don’t often notice them, but yet, they have these interesting lives and social groups. I really like the colored pencil sketch.
Teresa: we showed a Spanish birder around on Saturday on our bikes. He was enthralled by the robins. They really are striking once you forget you see them all the time….
I guess we take for granted that which is too familiar. :}