British Wildlife Postcards; River Birds - Kingfisher

I have decided to put upon myself a task to create a series of postcards based upon British Wildlife, be it butterflies, small mammals, amphibians/reptiles, river birds etc etc :)
Started with river birds & I aim to do five animals for each set as such, so for River Birds it shall be; Kingfisher, Swan, Mallard, Moorhen & Heron.

The following is the first of those five, the Common (Eurasian) Kingfisher with it's brightly coloured orange & blue feathers.

Gone for a nostalgic 70's feel with the colour scheme / textures / floral patterns & such like. Hope people like it! The floral pattern brushes were given to me on file by a friend & in all honesty I have no idea where they came from to give credit to the creator, apologies :S

Will most likely attempt the Heron one next over the next few days.

Poems Project; Elephant

CD project in. Poems project out.

Normal college procedure of handing in a project & receiving a new one today (not complaining :))
Quite liking the idea of doing this project actually... Which is that of choosing 6 poems from a list of 12 & Illustrating an A5 piece to represent each one of the chosen 6 poems, accompanied by artwork to go with the poem itself on the same page. Basically 6 A5 pieces and 6 small accompanying illustrations...

Have made a start on one of the poems, being that of 'Elephant'. Which is about an elephant being a pretty bird in a rhubarb tree ... kinda random :S But here's my line art for the A5 piece anyways.