I want to get some pet quail after college, so I got this too-small-for-birds birdhouse and decorated it. 

The roof and insides are done in Stuart Semple’s Black pigment. You can see it’s not quite that black-hole-in-space level of darkness, but, unless I shine a light directly into the entrance, the inside of the birdhouse looks like it doesn’t exist. It’s a pretty neat effect. 

My lamp wasn’t kind to the coloration here. It’s a bit sparklier in person, and less dingy. The black marks all over it are intentional, it looked too plain otherwise, and they look a bit better in person. 

The perch was missing, so I replaced it with a pencil that slides out to keep track of things. 

I like it!