Better or Worse

I have been working on this bird painting for what feels like FOREVER. It keeps morphing.  I keep working & adding things. I'm not sure if it is making it better or worse. Can you believe it had started as an idea from my mother-in-law to paint from a photo of 3 pheasants that had been in our front yard last winter.... & now it seems more like a phoenix...The latest is on the background & it is the top photo. I wanted the blue snowflakes to be less noticeable, so the bird could really stand out. I thought about doing a white wash all over the background, or  painting larger white dots over everything but the bird. The dots won. So I started at the bottom, in case I hated it, it might be easier to disguise there. But,  I think I like it, I'll have to see when it's all done. Otherwise I'll paint over it & start from scratch. I keep thinking that if I was working on it on the computer I would just hit command z to "undo" & move things around, but I can't & there have been hrs//days/weeks spent with this bird!