A little Chicken, and a big turkey

It felt great to get back into the studio today and to start a new painting. I have had a busy week with counting votes for the peoples choice Treasury of Art show, celebrating an anniversary and preparing to host thanksgiving. Painting is so relaxing for me. Evenings when I paint seem to fly past and it is soon midnight and time to head to bed but in the morning I feel so much better rested than if I had stayed up late doing almost anything else. I think when I paint I sort of escape into a different brain space and it refreshes me instead of making me tired.

This little painting of my son has been calling to me for a while now. The reference photo was taken this summer at my parents farm. He was so proud and happy to be holding this sweet baby chick.

 

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King of the Coup

I started a painting class last week and worked on a painting of my Mother-in-law only to be met with increasing frustration so this week to loosen up and have a little more artistic freedom I started working on this painting of the King of the Coup. Exactness is not as important when painting a chicken as it is with a portrait so this was a good opportunity to just have fun with the painting. There was so much blue paint on my canvas that I had to come to a stopping point or contaminate all colors with blue.