More Chickens

"Dolly the City Chick"

Watercolor

5" x 7"

"Rooster Strut"

Watercolor

5" x 7"

"Backend Chicken"

Wtercolor

5" x 7"

"Emmy, The Orange Hen"

Acrylic and collage

5" x 7"

Here it is the 365th face. It has now been one year since I started this face a day business, and I'm back to chickens (a subject I painted and drew in a different life). I love birds faces. They have a lot of expression in those beady eyes. I have had chickens and enjoyed watching them preen and scratch. I used to have a parrot named Sparky who would sit on my shoulder as I worked, until I had my first child (Sparky was put into a large cage,but he hated that child as the baby took the birds place in my arms). Sparky was very entertaining as he would help me with what ever I was doing. If I was sewing, Sparky would pull the pins out-usually before I had sewn that section; when I was painting, Sparky would grab the end of my brush with his beak in order to chew on it. That made for some very interesting strokes. When I admonished Sparky for his very busy beak, he would roll his eyes around as if to say, "What? I'm just trying to help." sparky was a great friend and it will always sadden me to think of his untimely death. He nibbled on a houseplant that was deadly to him (be warned all bird lovers). It was so tragic. He truly was a great bird. But, I warn you about parrots; they are extremely social and demand a lot of attention. The bigger the bird the bigger the mess and the bite (they need to chew). When I am older and without young children to tend to I may consider another bird.

"Rose"

Oil

8" x 10"

"Ista II"

Watercolor

2.5" x 3.5"

"Edie"

watercolor

2.5" x 3.5"

"Ol' Dutch"

Acrylic and Collage

5" x 7"

"Chicken Pink"

Acrylic and Collage

5" x 7"

My computer is up and running and I am happy to post a lot of new faces. These chickens are from a new series I've started. They are going fast I'm happy to say. I am almost at the end of one year of posting a face a day. That's a lot of faces!!!

"Chicken Wheat"

Acrylic with handcarved stamp collage

5" x 7"

"Chicken Fairy"

Watercolor (Twinkle h2o's)

5" x 7"

"Marsha" by Ruth

Watercolor

4"x 6"

"Ista"

Watercolor

2.5" x 3.5"

"Circus Dreams"

Tip in page-Acrylic & Collage

5" x 10"

"Rooster Crow"

Hand Watercolored Gocco Print

6.5" x 9"

"Mail Art 1"

Acrylic

8" x 10"

Mail Art II

Acrylic

11" x 14"

Mail Art III

Acrylic

11" x 14"

"Rosetta"

Graphite

6" x 6"

"Carla"

Graphite

5" x 6"

"Russe Green"

Watercolor

2.5" x 3.5"

"Fishy"

Watercolor

2.5"x 3.5"

"Ivan"

Watercolor

4" x 6"

"Smoldering"

Watercolor

4" x 6"

The faces are piling up on my scanner waiting for my computer to recover. It is facing a brain transplant. Pray for us. Thankfully my computer guru is my husband and he is quite the geek. So as soon as I can I will be posting lots of faces.

"Angel after Sargent"

Graphite

3" x 4"

"Angel Study"

Graphite

3" X 4"