Chickens

Chicken-a-go-go.  I don't know why I like painting chickens, but I do.  They are so fun, and easy.  All you have to do is let the paint do its thing.   I could have painted these all night.  Just draw one after the other, and paint paint paint.  

If you haven't seen it, I've put a short video that will show you how I've done it.  

Here it is

Thanks for the view.  I hope you enjoyed it.

Back to the Chicken Shack

Once again, i've ben playing with chickens.  They really are fun to paint.  These ones might get a little grass under their feet soon.

I'm trying to get a little addition by subtraction, and not painting everything on the chicken, but enough detail that one's mind will  fill in all the missing bits.  I think I got (or got close to that) with the body of the chickens, but I lost it a little bit in the tails.  They are just a little too busy.

I also picked a couple of pictures that weren't totally in profile.  Not sure how I did with that, but.... Well, they are done.

Hope you enjoy them.

Chickens

Was doing a little doodling, and decided to doodle some chickens.  These were super fun to paint.  I had the intent of letting the paint mix on the paper.  I still wanted to try to maintain that each had a crown, wing tail, legs, etc. while not being so tight with the paint.  I think for the most part i worked pretty well.  You can see that the tails are a dark, and their underbelly is dark, and their necks a bit lighter.  If you look you can see the color blend from one to another.

Well, I had fun with this practice.  I'll probably put the ground and a background on at some time, so these might just pop up again.

Thanks for the look and enjoy.

Eat More Chicken

This panting currently for sale.  Contact Michael for details.

Ever been in 4H?  No, neither have I.  But you have gone to the state, or at least county fair right?  Right.  Then you've seen all the chickens at the fair, and you probably have seen one that looks similar to this.

He's a nice little rooster painted in 3 to 4 different layers of color.  The first is just the base coat.  The second and in some cases the third give definition to the bird and feathers.  The final layer adds the details to the feathers, crown and beak, eyes, etc.  I'm actually pretty happy with the way this one came out.  I may go back and paint some foliage in the background, but even if I don't I think he's a nice bird.  Enjoy.