Atticus chiding me !!

Lovely and colourful Sunil

A lovely bright painting , definitely should be called Beaky that beak looks lethal.

I like it Sunil.

Very colourful!!

A great character Sunil!

Thank you Heather, Paul, David, Carole, and David for your heart warming comments. I love hearing from LP readers. I decided to call the parrot Atticus after my favourite literary character : from "To kill a Mockingbird". I must admit that when i saw the beak with its whitish markings in the original photograph, I was greatly worried. How would i execute it? And then subconsciously I just ran a fine dryish brush horizontally across the page, and Voila, my problem was solved ! I now feel more confident on drawing birds.

Certainly a colourful character Sunil, though I’d never have guessed that this was a watercolour painting, the paint looks quite thick.

I wanted to give the bird a "body" hence the paint is not watery! I was amazed that LP featured it in the Letters to Editor page in the Jan 22 issue!