Will they stop moving!

So I'm standing in the sitting room facing the garden, Chinese Paint brush in hand, a pile of A1 Cartridge Paper in front of me, three plates of ink to one side and I wait. Luckily, the filled bird feeder brings in my first subject, a Robin, who can't decide whether to fight its reflection, stare at me (I think its staring at me), or to eat (and he's a messy eater).

Of course there is one problem when you are trying to paint birds - they move. Infact they move a lot. I either scared them away when I turned my head to get more ink, or as I looked where I was painting they had disappeared altogether. 

 

So there was a lot of looking, waiting, waiting and looking.

Now to transform my sketches into, well you'll just have to wait and see.