Sometimes, when I’m working with a student one-on-one, I’ll take on a project that I can do alongside them so that I’m not hovering while they work. I’ll take out my sketchbook and create something just for fun. This resulted in this montage of a parrot! (A montage is one image made up from several images.) After finding an interesting reference photo, I went through several magazines to collect images with the correct colours I could use for the parrot. I then had to tear these into small squares and decoupage them into my sketchbook to create the final image. (It took forever!)