This weekend's painting was based on a photo I took while visiting the Saint Louis Zoo a few weekends ago. I took a picture of this Superb Starling (talk about a name with a lot of expectation!) in the Bird House:

SUPE'RB. adj. [superbe, French; superbus, Latin.] Grand; pompous; lofty; august; stately; magnificent. — Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.