Birds on a Wire

I had so much success turning beginner's sketches into my darling little Chester on Tuesday I though I would take a stab at birds for my drawing attempt today.  I did the same thing, using the technique out of my Drawing Lab book.  I just wasn't getting the proportions or shapes right so I searched for bird images on Google and did a few more and did come up with a pretty cute whimsical bird.

I was ready to put that bird on today's ICAD card but then I spotted this in google images:



That third line of birds spoke to me and I could envision a line of birds sitting on a wire on a moon lit night. So I drew and redrew and until I had the shapes I liked in my sketchbook.  Then I created the background on the index cards using acrylic paints, a stencil (thank you Ingrid!), rubbed on metallic acrylic and some Perfect Pearls misted on top.  Then I penciled in the birds and painted the birds with black acrylic paint.  It all went well except for that bird on the left.  I just coudn't get the right shape on her and the more I tried to correct it with paint worst it got.  Thankfully, I knew when to stop.  I'll probably do this image again just so I can do better on the bird shapes.