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.

Chicken Mania

In addition to last nights poppy painting session.  I also found a little time to paint a few chickens.  I really don't know why i keep painting chickens.  I do like birds, but if I were asked to list my favorite birds, chickens would be WAY down the list.

It must have to do with the fact that you can throw a few colors into a chicken shape and it always comes out looking good.

I started painting them to force myself to let the colors mix on the paper, and I guess I got a little addicted.  Well, at any rate, they are fun to paint.  I hope you like them.  

More Chickens

Ok, a little more chicken sketching.  Seems I've got so many chickens I should open a chicken farm.

I don't know what has caused me to paint chickens, but I've found painting them to be quite fun and relaxing.  I used to scoff at chicken pictures and kind of make fun of the videos people would post of painting chickens, but I've got to tell you,  Once you start, you'll want to do more.

I think what it really is, is that chickens really lend themselves to be painted.  You can quickly and easily throw down some paint, let it mix on the paper, and voila, chicken.  Theses chickens and the last ones I did, I painted with 3 colors, and let most of the color mix in the paper.  When dry, I just went back and dabbled a few feather shadows and there they were... Chickens!

I'm hoping this exercise will allow me to loosen up in the rest of my paintings, but even if it doesn't,  I'll still have some fun chickens .

Thanks for the quick read.  Hope you enjoyed the chickens.  

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.