My Run and Sketch Kit

 

How plans change.

I planned to paint some sketches with gouache on my bike ride today: sprayed my pocket palette with lots of water, put it in a plastic bag and brought with me. But then everything changed: I found a dead seagull (passerby informed me that it's been there since yesterday) and a family of cottontails was grooming and grazing under a tree - and this is how I ended up without gouache sketch today!

Sketching birds at their morning routine.

Beautifully sunny and clear morning to ride a bike! I sketched a bunch of birds sitting on the half-submerged pipe. All the birds were pruning though I did not catch the angle of the blue heron's head so he is pretty static in my drawing.

 Here is a little collage of the process and details.

Sketching on the run

I saw some blue and green herons recently!