Art Post - Woodpecker

This one was hard. This is the second version I did. The first one came out so lumpy and messy I was worried I'd never paint again. The second one was like that too, until I remembered that paintings always feel like that halfway through.

Pileated woodpeckers are gorgeous in coloration, but super dinosaur-looking close-up.




ETA: I know the movement (smell?) lines are super silly, but I ran out of blue paint so I can't fix them.