More work on my little drawing

It's been a week or so since I've had good time to plug away on my art. And I think the break prompted me to look at this piece in a new way. I added four birds today by tracing an outline over a piece of carbon paper. I love the dark graphite like line this produces.

12? x 24"

I began this piece a few weeks ago with the intention of exploring color in my drawings. But then I put it down for quite a while as I began lacrimosa. Today I returned to it introducing some darker colors and expanding the palette. I've also started stitching the paper to create horizontal movement in the composition.