Cardinal Virtues
This A3 paper illustration of a pair of Cardinal birds was originally conceived as a greetings card design to coincide with Valentines Day. However as I progressed with the piece I decided to abandon limiting it to just a commercial item for a once a year occasion and instead build it up into a more complete image that could possibly be part of an exhibition later in the year. cardinals are North American birds so I included a Glorious beetle from the same part of the world t