Getting in some “pencil miles” before heading out to look for cranes this weekend.

My thanks to the Wild Wonder Foundation for their free online resources and great paid workshops for those of us who are working on our observation skills.

And of course to people like Amy Tan and Robin Lee Carlson and John Muir Laws for the examples they set and the books they write.

Sketches and a colored drawing of a crane, along with color swatches, are displayed on sketch paper.