Blue jay perching in cold weather. Colored pencils (Polychromos, Luminance) on Strathmore 400 sketch.
The Jay only uses two pencils: dark indigo and white. I intended this to be only a value study of the bird alone, but I needed a bit of background to ground them, so I added that in color. It all ties in so nicely.
Look at that good belly floof!
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