Feather Ink

 Okay, I admit, when Mrs. Shaffer said we would be using ink, as in a quill and bottle, I was nervous. I'd never done anything like it before! And at first, I sucked at it. So I practiced. And practiced. And practiced. And by the time I actually started on a project, surprise! I'd become a lot better at it. In fact, I learned to love inking. The details you can make are amazing  : )

This first bird has a blue background, in case you can't tell. It came about rather randomly. I was sitting in class when I spotted this picture of a crane and decided I wanted to draw and bird. So I sat down with my ink and paper and newly acquired skills and this is what I came up with. It took a couple of days to finish, and I looooooove it.

For my second ink work, I decided to do a bird to match the first one, in the opposite position and with an oppositely colored background. It was coming along really well..... that is, until I split my jar of ink on it. I managed to save it, but some of the white is very obvious..... otherwise, I think I actually like this bird better. This isn't the best pic of it....