All puffed up



 A very simple drawing of the Atlantic Puffin coloured in with the Faber-Castell watercolour pencils. It didn't take very long at all and is the perfect example of a quick sketchbook drawing. I shouldn't have added water to the beak, because I did not do it well and I messed up the usually striking, colourful beak.

If you haven't seen a photograph of a puffin carrying a beakful of fish, please go look it up now. It is one of the most oddly beautiful things I've seen.

~ Kate

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