BW... I must admit - life got really GOOD all of a sudden...
All my bird portraits are multi-media. The initial sketch is on paper with pencil and pastel... great subtlety and detail, then I cut that out and glue to canvas (sometimes several layers of wings, feet, beak), then finish with colorful acrylics, nail polish, white-out. This technique allows the detail of drawing with the desirability of a painted canvas.
The Rb is such a n'er-do-well. If I let him have the cam, he'd try to pawn it.
Ah, I just figured out how to resize!