A very smart young lady and some silly pigeons

My talented and funny friend Lisa's talented and funny daughter Siena graduated from fifth grade this year with flying colors, and Friday night was the throwdown party to celebrate that fact. I decided to draw her a card, pictured here. But what to draw?

Well, it turns out there's a building SOMEWHERE in New York called the Siena, spelled exactly the way Siena spells her name. And when I went to look at it so I could draw it accurately, eight pigeons immediately snapped to and spelled out how they felt about Siena's spectacular report card. Then I looked closer at the building and noticed that the tenant on the top floor was either very excited about Siena's latest milestone too, or was just enthusiastic about fifth grade graduates in general. Whatever the case, I felt very lucky that events conspired in such a way and that I was able to capture at least some of the excitement.