Regards! this time I share a drawing of a bird made with colored pencils.

These last few weeks have been really stressful in my life, but fortunately this weekend I am calmer, sometimes the drawings are a reflection of the mood, that's why today I had the motivation to draw, that is, I felt the need to do something colorful without any particular subject, I just wanted to take my colored pencils and do something with them, it came to my mind that I wanted to draw a bird and I did a quick search for any reference on the web, finding this beautiful photograph and decided draw it.

Later I decided to investigate a little about the species of the bird, finding that it is called La Tangara Preciosa and it is also recognized as Saíra Preciosa, it lives in South America in countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, the feeding of the bird is based on fruits. I also researched the source of the photograph and found that the image belongs to a photographer named Sergio Gregorio, who takes pictures of different species of beautiful birds, this picture was taken at the Curitiba location in Brazil.

To start drawing the first thing was to draw a vertical and a horizontal line in the center of the format to center the image, later with an HB pencil, applying little pressure to the paper, I made the sketch of the drawing. Once the drawing was done, I selected the color pencils to use according to the color palette of the image, creating groups of colors for the areas determined by the different tones. Starting to paint from the highest color, that is, the lightest.

I continued to paint the orange yellow hues, followed by the green and blue hues, always starting with the low tones, followed by the highs.

The last color that I use in the figure is black, with this I paint the eyes and the legs, black is used last because the colored pencils are soft, these when passing over the paper give off small shavings that can hardly be seen , these if rubbed with a lighter color will end up making stains, that is why the last black color is used.

Once the main figure was colored, I proceeded to paint the branch on which the bird rests, as well as painting the background in various shades to make a rather dim contrast harmony.

This illustration of a Precious Tanager simply ended up brightening my day, I realized not only is bird watching therapeutic, but drawing them is also.