It was time to tackle the subject a la Matisse with an unabandoned (almost) joy de vivre.
With this approach it seemed entirely appropriate to put the bullfinch centre stage. The dapper equivalent of a Michael Portillo, and certainly with a better sense of colour, offsetting a gaudy vermillion against a cooler grey. Michael is more equivalent to a Macaw with a jackdaw sense of colour. On occasions he manages to create a vision of bold elegance though I suspect this is entirely accidental.
The aim was to have a flat decorative painting where the spaces between the leaves would be vibrant and occupy as much of the picture plane as the leaves themselves.
Bird in a tree 15. At the end of day 1.