Monthly Drawterry Illustration for December! Prompts used this month were branches, cherry headed conure, and warm beverage.

The conure was my word this month. A flock of them likes to hang out in my neighborhood and I think they’re the cutest things 🙂 When trying to figure out how to use a conure and a hot beverage in the same image, I started developing the idea of a plucky little house parrot stealing something sweet off the table when nobody was looking.

I’ve seen conures blend into all sorts of trees even though they are BRIGHT green critters (magic perhaps?) so I started playing with the idea of a Christmas tree behind him as camoflage. The next thing I knew I had a Christmas card 😉

Ink pen and watercolor.