I wanted to practice with pastel colors.
And I swear to god this is the absolute style I'll use for Finch's more realistic form, even if I don't draw it that often.

The pink clouds were going to be trashed before I blended them with the white clouds and they started to look good.
I also tried some practice with the speckle brush to get a nice impressionist style in my works.

The brown spots on the hills are just sunset shadows, they're not dirt spots, or anything else.
Also, Finch's head bugs me ever so slightly.

Image drawn in Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Total layers: 28
Total time: 1 day, 4 hours, 34 minutes.
Finch is © me.