A Bird in the Hand

After a long sleep that I sorely needed, I woke up to a lovely cool day. Cool weather gives me energy and I went about my day feeling happy.

I seem to be in a bird painting phase. I love this olive watercolor, made by Van Gogh, that I used straight out of the tube.The indigo gouache is too blue, so I mixed with a little black.

And a little stitching.

 Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown