Bird Watching

This is a painting I'd started a year ago, then stopped because I wasn't quite sure what to do next with it. It remained in it's tentative, watercolory state. Lately I have been painting with stronger, surer intent, yet having more fun with composition, and decided treat this painting as if it were just the first layers of something I'd do now.

The original had the same odd perspective, but the pedestrians were originally a shadowy couple rendered in blues. I recalled the composition was actually something from a dream, so ran with it, and let color-play feed the painting process. The blues were intensified, the shapes simplified; I discovered a bird-like quality to the shapes, which I then emphasized. This painting got more fun to do as I worked.