So this was very spur of the moment - it always seems that whenever I get the urge to tidy up, do some spring cleaning and sort stuff out, I stumble across an old art pad with nothing in it, get some inspiration, and spend the rest of the day drawing surrounded by the clutter of a half tidied room.

Once again I was exploring a kind of Susan Seddon Boulet type feel here, with my trusty prismacolour pencils, and whilst I was drawing I was trying to think of an appropriate title for it rather than 'Bird', and then I remembered this story we read when we were kids from the Puddlelane series - about the Tidy Bird, I dont quite remember all of it, but there was this bird that would tidy stuff away if you left things lying around, and you would know it was coming cos it made this ringing sound or something. Anyway, in the books it was illustrated by this red light I think, and I'd like to say that that's why I did the red breast, but really I was just livening up the blue and I realized the red was appropriate afterwards!

Anyway I'll stop rambling!
The reference photo was found here [link]