Painting out the Kinks!

Just a week ago I hung 11 new paintings in a show at Asheville School, a part of a group show.  I got a late start on the work I wanted to do for the show and so I really cranked it up and worked and painted and actually had to do that to make the deadline.
I work best with a deadline but this one just about got away from me.  So I took a week and a half off - no painting.  Today I was ready to start back, but I actually had not cleared my head yet.  So I decided to work small ish and try a new subject.
Now that Spring is just around the corner I am very aware of the new greens, flowers and the birds.  So I decided to paint some birds.
It was fun and it is always interesting when you change subjects - probably good for the brain.  It is just like exercising - your body gets used to one form of exercise and when you change it up it is pretty challenging.
Anyway, it took a bit for me to be comfortable with what I was doing.  Mostly I was playing in the luscious paint.  
I had a couple of 12 x 12 canvases that had tried to be a painting, with acrylics and had great texture.  I used them.
As usual I didn't know what I wanted the finished painting to look like - just I will know it when I see it.  So I let the paint develop, and kept encouraging it a bit to form a bird's body.  
I made some videos of parts of the process because I thought you would be interested in watching the movement of the paint.  That is always fascinating to me.  What do you think of my first bird?
"Parrot"
Oil on Canvas
12 x 12
​Send me an email if you are interested: nsdasheville@gmail.com