These are watercolor pencil and color pencil drawings. One or two may have a little brush, as well.  I did these in 2012. It was most of what I could do that year, not too much. I watched birds while sitting on the deck at my in laws lake house in Conquest, New York (Duck Lake.) I simply like birds. I have an affinity for Mourning Doves and Sparrows as they are so common and so many. I think of them as symbolically being like man kind. So many and so common. Our plights are shared our experience is similar and we face a shared experience on earth. I love that Sparrows are the Biblical bird of choice in a number of scriptures. The expression of god's concern for even the Sparrow. So, symbolically, the Sparrow represents our common plight and experience. I find Sparrow's and Mourning Doves beautiful in their ordinariness. Although, ordinary, they are amazing and complex and free in so many ways. So I think that is worthy of representing!