Despite the Warning, He was Still Considering the Sun

When I finished the ground on this board I considered the yellow area to represent the sun.  Then I began to think about Icarus and his flight too close to the sun which melted the wax wings his father Daedalus crafted for him.  Daedalus had warned Icarus about the sun, but he failed to heed the warning.  He fell to his death as the wings melted in the sun.  How funny I thought that the Cedar Waxwing has the perfect name for this representation.  I have never seen nor photographed a Cedar Waxwing.  But I found the perfect image on flickr by Ronald Zigler.  Mr. Zigler was generous enough to allow my use of the photograph as a resource.  Below is the day to day progress of the painting. The right side of the bird was difficult and reworked each day with not much evidence.