Last day in Burbank. We’re going home. Sidra went off to Science Camp this morning. The place feels a bit empty. I can’t wait for Science Camp stories or, even better, Science Camp paintings.

Today’s watercolor experiment:

My study today is a pencil sketch overlaid with watercolor. Sidra’s line-drawing technique served me in good stead since my subject of choice today was a barely-noticeable weather vane on the house behind us.

There is not much of a watercolor quality to this sketch. It is fairly monotone even though I used several shades of green, some mixed with white and some with quinacridone burnt orange and Van Dyke brown.

I normally choose an unusually lit or colorful subject to paint, but in this case it was the design of the object itself that caught my attention. I love the curly flourishes and the bird itself, which is probably not a stork because it has no baggage. It is probably an egret or a heron.

Well, no matter what it is, tomorrow we head north, probably into some weather.