My initial reaction to this painting is to try and piece together what is happening. Because the shapes and body parts of the cat are so varied and not assembled like a normal cat, it takes me a moment to realize that it is, in-fact, a cat hunched over a bird.
The colors and textures used in the painting compliment each other, but are overly complicated and in my opinion, messy. The cat is disfigured with a back hump and back leg that could very easily belong to an additional creature hiding behind the cat. There are unnecessary black outlines where there should not be, in the middle of the back and face, and places where they are missing, such as the secondary hind leg and tail. The bloody waterfall between the cat's bloodless jaw and the bird is something that could either be redrawn to spill over the cat's jaw and into an appropriate, yet missing, hole in the bird's side, or be eliminated all together.
I think that a more naturalistic yet whimsical style would be a more attractive way in which to paint this image, versus this dark cubism/surrealism. I would also like to get a better idea of what the cat is standing on, is it a thin gate or a brick wall? A bit of reconstruction of the cat's back, legs, face, and the bird's body seems like a good place to start with changes.
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