Day three painting

Day three of the Leslie Saeta challenge to paint 30 paintings in 30 days.      I've started with a series of birds.    Here is the next one. I had previously layered tissues and gesso over some preprinted canvases I bought at Michael's the first of the year for 25 cents each.   I had a feeling they would come in handy some day. 

The first one here is the painting.    It looks better in person, so I thought I'd tweak it some in Photoshop by posterising it to a level 5.That way the texture in background shows better.     I may go rework this little bird.