#271 Baltimore Oriole 12/31/19

After work and before going over to a friend's house for New Year's Eve festivities, I thought I would start this painting....and then finish it tomorrow on a very welcome day-off.  But alas, Dave was running behind and I got it done before we left the house, amazing.  I might have dinked more with the background and the foliage, but I'm going to keep it as is since it kind of makes you look only at the bird.  The bird went down easy, easier than I anticipated it would since he has some complicated markings.  The biggest challenge was that I needed to get a black eye to show up on top of black feathers.  I did that by painting a grey eye first, then painting a smaller black eye on top of the gray, then the teeny tiniest little light grey fleck in the middle of that eye and there you go.....he's a living creature.