Hello everyone!

I would say spring is in the air except that it snowed yesterday. BUT – that did not deter me from doing my drawing of spring. I was inspired by the video of the birds building their nest in the Theme of the Week post (HERE). So I thought I’d draw some eggs in a nest.

I found another great video of weaver birds building nests. They don’t particularly have to do with spring, so I didn’t put it in the original theme post, but since I was inspired by their hard work, I thought I’d show you here:

Pretty cool, huh? I like how that poor young weaver bird was still learning how to make his nest, not very successfully. But, he just kept on trying, which is really the best way to get better at something anyway.

I’m also going to include Alden’s spring-inspired drawing here, mostly to remind you that that the First International Interwebs Welly Wanging Competition IS ON, and as it stands, Matthew is going to win the trophy, I’m going to win one of the 8×10 archival prints, and Kato is going to win the other one. As you can see from Alden’s drawing, her wanging record was 23″ (that’s 1 foot, 11 inches, in official tournament measurements), which didn’t make the cut. It might have been due to the non-regulation boot we had to use – one of August’s, so quite small (seen on the left, in black and red).

If you do not find Alden’s picture or free prints of my drawings compelling enough to join in the competition, well, how’s about THIS:

That is the trophy the longest-distance Wanger will win. (Runners up will be judged on distance AND style points.)

So, you have TWO assignments this week! Number 1: Draw something inspired by Spring! Number 2: Join our Welly Wanging Competion! (If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, check it out HERE). Post your drawings and/or pictures of Welly Wanging below to be entered in this week’s contest! And may the best Wanger Win!

Also: if you’d like a coloring page of this week’s drawing, here it is:

Oh, right, and if you’d like to put in a bid on my original bird’s nest illustration, you can do so HERE.

The End, good golly, THE END!!!