My 3rd piece of wildlife artwork

Hi

I have recently completed my 2nd piece of wildlife artwork and I am now looking to do my 3rd piece with a view to putting it into a gallery this August. However am struggling to decide on what to accomplish next. I am fairly new to wildlife and therefore still perfecting my techniques and there is still so much for me to learn.
I am torn between learning to paint feathers and learning a new way to paint fur. I'm not overly great when it comes to painting animals of 1 fur colour IE: all black or brown so by trying a new technique I may be able to accomplish a fairly good quality painting of say a cat or a bear. At the moment any animal I paint with one fur colour ends up as a big messy splodge with no real definition to it. However, birds can be tremendously colourful creatures with many different feather types so this will be equally challenging and I think great fun.

OK I have made my decision I will paint a bird as my next piece! Now just to decide which bird to paint...... :0)