This lovely little bluebird is finally finished! Just in time for spring. Hopefully… He’s been sitting in my studio for a little while, almost done, just missing the background. I’ve been working on a new linocut series, but I finally took some time out to finish him up.

I’m thinking of expanding into a backyard birds torn paper collage series. I have three already, so why not more? I don’t think I’ve shared the other two here yet, so I’ll add them to this post too! We’ll make this a Backyard Birds series post.

First, I have this lovely Cardinal. I used him on my Christmas cards last year. Maybe I should add a line of greeting cards to my Etsy shop. What do you think?

I also have this Baltimore Oriole. They have such striking colors.

Now I just need to decide which other birds I want to add to the series! So far I’ve done northeast/midwestern US birds, since that’s where I’m living currently. I suppose I could add some of the birds I saw when I lived in the UK. Maybe make a second series of backyard birds!

What are your favorite backyard birds? Tell me in the comments.

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