White-Throated Sparrow in Colored Pencil
Craig Houghton January 7th, 2007
I’m sticking with the birds for another night, but it’s only because I decided to cycle between a dozen or so styles and mediums. I was originally going to take one particular drawing and walk it through, but around the time I did the cowbird I decided to cycle through the project with different subjects — I need to keep excited about it or I’ll end up moving on to some other project.
So, here’s a small 5×7 White-Throated Sparrow in colored pencil on hot press watercolor paper. I’m not much of a fan of working with something waxy, but it’s good practice. By the way, I hate watermarks on paper. Since the scanner picked it up, I removed the Arches imprint and label using Painter.

-Craig


