An afternoon at the Field Museum, sketching gulls. I set out to see how many of the gulls in the case I could sketch. After six, the page spread was filled and I was tired and stopped for coffee “and,” then did the final spread (the first spread above). I am still not sure I want to keep drawing in pen instead of pencil, but it it is cleaner and doesn’t smear, and forces me to commit to decisions in drawing, live with my mistakes, and then practice some more.

To be honest, these are drawings of photos I took on the banks of Salt Creek at Graue Mill in Oak Brook, Illinois. I did fill two spreads of my sketchbook while I was there, but as a novice at drawing active birds, I could not capture much.

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