2000 Dead Birds

I want to paint
2000 dead birds crucified on a background of night

That is a line taken from the poem I Want To Paint by Adrien Henri. And what I came up with was this.

In truth, I'm not totally  happy with it. It didn't quite work out the way I had planned in my head. But that's life.

I had to get references of birds' wings so that I could get the shape right and the direction of the 'feathers'.

Lots of ink and lots of mess.