About Me and My Birds

I'm a southerner and high school student who does art as a hobby. I like doing art for fun and feel like it shouldn't feel like a chore. All of my art is made with great love and care and I try my best to achieve good quality.
I love, LOVE birds. My first pet was a ring necked dove named LooLoo. I had her ever since I was around 5. LooLoo unfortunately suffered from cancer. She passed in late May of 2022 and this was one of the last photos I was able to take. I miss her every single day, and sometimes I forget she's gone.

On the bright side, I have three cockatiels that I also love very much. I have a lutino female named Macaroni, a female gray named Ollie, and a pied gray named Mango.
Macaroni is the sweetest of the bunch, giving me kisses and trying to preen my skin (ouch). Ollie and Mango... not so much! Ollie is a complete touch-me-not. I've tried to get her to like pets, but she doesn't like being pet either :(. Mango loves my mom, but despises me. He loves playing peek-a-boo in the mirror.

I've recently gotten two more ringneck doves! One is named Oakie, and the other one is Kiwi. They are both white and wild pied. We thought they were both males, but Oakie laid an egg. Kiwi is male! They're both very sweet and sometimes, when I'm napping, they peck the threads on my socks.

Now, they've had a baby! Her name is Twiggy. She's albino! She used to be very skittish around me, but I've been slowly making progress on bonding with her. I thought she was a boy, but nope! She showed signs of female mating behavior.

Twiggy's Progress

Artwork

Here are a few examples of my work! All digital work was done in either Procreate or MediBang Paint Pro!