Touch Of Wildlife- Penguin Front Cover Competition

These are the digital designs of a papercut out I'll be producing for the 'Penguins Front Cover Competition'. This art piece will be a possible contestant in the competition... But I have designed 5 more in similar styles and won't know till later which one I'll choose to submit!
This cover design is for the book 'Diary Of A Young Naturalist' by Dara McAnulty. It's a Siskin bird which is one of the first birds Dara mentions in his early chapters of his book. All the designs I've done are of birds he's mentioned so far- I'm reading the book as I produce this work to fully understand what I'm designing!

As mentioned, this is only the digital plan of colour scheme and design for a paper cut I'll be making inspired by the work of Margaret Scrinkl- I will post the paper cut version later on in the month!