Fifty birds and two cats

This morning I drew and coloured about 50 birds for a project I'm working on.  Jag and Llorca hung out with me like this for most of the morning.  It was the best.

So that my birds are mainly the same size I draw my main image in pencil on a piece of tracing paper.  

Then I flip the tracing paper over and retrace the image onto the actual paper I want to work on.  Doing it this way reminds me of all the old tracings I saw at the Warner Brothers exhibit at the Crocker a few months ago.  Since there was more than one artist working on drawing cartoon characters for the show there would be a template for a character, like Tweety bird.  That way all the artists would have the right proportions no matter who was working on it.  There were even specifications for eye distances and expressions.

I was talking to my Mum on the phone while I was colouring the birds and she said the funniest thing I've heard all day, "Quinoa tastes like dust, and I should know because I eat dust all the time".