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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1741389" data-attributes="member: 77930">Very striking Mosca, as was your last work.I think for me it's not so much a question of background as it is of environment. That is the bird lives in certain surroundings and showing them, even if just partially, helps in the overall drawing or painting.But I can see why you like your stark white backgrounds. It does make the bird standout.If you do continue to think about using background there are a lot of backgrounds, from very detailed where the background is as important as the bird almost to something very spare and stark and everything in between. I've run into the work of Thomas Quinn recently. He's an example of someone who uses a pretty sparse background. And Clive on this forum is a good example of more complex environments I think, though I don't want to speak for Clive. For myself I guess I tend toward the slightly impressionistic though I'm not sure how well that would work with your detailed style.In any case that is my 2 cents on it. I'm sure others will have a variety of ideas.</blockquote>