For awhile I had been tossing around starting to paint my birds with oils and kinda of experimented with it last year on the cheap side by painting some wire and canvas mallards, green wing teal and blue wing teal with Rustoleum that were going in my rig. The paint held up fine and while not artist oils gave me a feel for that medium.
This is an antique Dudley style hooded merganser drake that I've been messing with. I blocked in some white, didnt like it and blacked those areas out to do again.