Finished a crow painting yesterday and took photos all along so I'll go through the steps.
I started differently this time and I used charcoal then fixed it. The background is a page of birds from the front of an atlas.
There is gel medium put on in a stucco pattern with red Primsacolor for the berry.
Had some problems with how it was working and decided to make some changes.
Made the changes and I like it better, sorry about the bad photo.