I must really like red heads

This is obviously a very proud bird.  He's sitting on a branch with his chest puffed out.  There must be a female on a brach close by.  He seems to be looking off to the side, so perhaps she'e just off the page to the left.

For those that have followed my paintings for a while now, you can see that I am a lot less "tight" with my paint.  I'm trying hard to let things be, and just allow the paint to fill in the spaces it needs to fill.  I've seen that if I fidget with things and try to get them "right" the only thing I can be certain of is that things won't look "right".  If I let the paint do it paint thing, things look a bit better and less fiddled with.

Well, its a quick painting that I had fun with, hope you all like it.