It’s been quite a while since I’ve done any art work, and I have had the urge to do some lately. I couldn’t think of anything interesting to do, and I didn’t want to do a large project that would take a long time, so I ended up doing a couple of sketches of Hank—one in pencil and one in conte. They’re not what I would call finished pieces.

Incidentally, we took Hank to the vet the other day—partly because it had been a while, and partly because his droppings were red (which can be a sign of something wrong). The vet said that he was one of the best looking birds he had seen and that he was very well-behaved. By well-behaved, he meant that he didn’t really fight when he was handling him. Hank is used to being handled a lot. He wasn’t tramatized like he was last time—when his wings were clipped and they stuck a swab down his throat to take a culture.