Scheming Magpie

"Magpie" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip

10 Inches by 5 Inches

Started to colour the Magpie Sketch I drew the other day. Decided to use the light sandy/peach coloured paper. I'm actually glad I chose this colour over the red. I think it would have been very hard to get really white whites with the bright red paper.

The bird is not this brown in person, more of a dark blue-black. The plan is too leave the background very simple, suggest a few rocks and possibly blades of grass. The bird is less than 5 inches tall, I wanted a challenge but it is actually turning out to be easier than I thought (killing my sharpeners though keeping the points on the pencils so sharp).

The nasturtiums have flowered. We ended up transplanting all the plants into hanging baskets as they were starting to suck the life out of everything else in the little corner garden. After a few weeks of looking like dead hanging alien arms, they have flowered nice bright red, yellow, orange and really nice peach coloured flowers. I'm wary of actually trying to eat one of the leaves. Want to try to eat some. I know lots of people have told me that the leaves make a nice addition to a salad, but just my luck I try to eat something healthy and I will end up ill. :/ (of course it probably doesn't help that I still can't think of this plant without thinking of some mutant killer plant and the bloody rampage in a possible horror movie [of course the picture in that post is missing so this doesn't make a lot of sense]).


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