I am being entertained by the arrival of this year’s crop of baby magpies. We usually have three baby magpies visiting the garden each year, but this year we think we might have four.
One of the babies was very much just fledged from the nest yesterday and didn’t seem to be keeping up to speed with the others, and got left behind. I took up a spot right at my patio door, and just sat there squawking. When it spotted me through the glass it started squawking at me, and tapping on the glass, and I had visions of having to adopt the thing if it’s parents didn’t come back.
All was well, and it seems to have developed a bit of self-reliance, as it was defending its spot this morning, and has been feeding. I love all the corvids, and we get several species visiting the garden throughout the year, none of them bring me treasure, tho, despite how much they are fed.
Dragging myself away from the coolest spot in the house, on a day that has been clammy and warm, has been challenging, but I have spent hours in the studio room place working on lots of different things. It’s amazing how one piece of furniture can change everything.
One of the things I was working on was more sketches from the sketch of a scream. I started off in my A4 sketchbook, and then I kept staring at the mixed media background I made the other day, trying to decide what to do next. The background itself wasn’t really speaking to me, so I decided to try putting a scream face on it to see how it looked.
On the right is the first two layers, with the face sketched in thinned acrylic, and then some marking with a Stabilo All pencil. I activated that with my spray bottle.
On the left is where she is at now, after basing my skin tones around pyrrole red. I love the pyrrole red so much, and I am loving the layering of the drips. I’ve got lots of drips going on just now here and there, I am noticing.
Tears, really.
Til the morn,
Free Palestine,
Suzanne.Scream
154/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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