Fresh Start For My Chicken Painting
Subtle But Important Differences. So here is the new painting. It looks quite similar to the other I admit, even though I did move my bird over about 1 1/2 inches.
The photos are of roosters from the house (on a farm) that we rented when we lived in Rapid City. They weren’t ours, (nor were the peacocks, ducks, geese, Llama, horses, dog, cats or giganto goat.) But we got to enjoy them as ours, without all the feed and vet bills. (Sweet)
Evil Chickens and Killer Goats
They had about 20 or 30 of these type of chickens with about 5 roosters. The white one here is my main reference. He was pure evil. A nasty bird who dug his spurs into everything else on the farm including the dogs and cats. Eventually he disappeared under questionable circumstances. (The actual owners of the birds really hated him.)
Frankly, their goat was a menace who needed to disappear under questionable circumstances. More than once I pondered forgetting to apply the brakes when he was in front of the truck. (never did of course, not in my nature. But if it were?)
It was in my nature however, to whack him in the head with a shovel (as hard as I could) whenever he was trying to kill one of my dogs. (Bear in mind, he was the size of a small horse. No kidding. He could hit with the power of a freight train.) Okay enough about the goat. It’s been over 10 years and he still gets my dander up.
At any rate, I really liked this white rooster because he was terribly showy. (Hey . . . what can I say, I’m a visual person.) The gold and black guy to the left may be the color direction that I am going towards in my painting. I haven’t made any firm decisions about that yet.
I’m not sure why my photos got so blown out from scanning. I tried to alter them in photoshop, but there really is no adding information to a blown out image. All I can say is my reference photos are gorgeous. Too bad I couldn’t show them as they really are.
Thanks for posting progress. I enjoyed the stories too, looking forward to more progress on this one. I’ve had trouble with scans too, didn’t think about the horrible things they do to photos even worse than to artwork.
Robert
“Eventually [the rooster] disappeared under questionable circumstances”
Did they happen to have roast chicken that weekend?
“Frankly, their goat was a menace who needed to disappear under questionable circumstances”
I really like curried goat
“I’m not sure why my photos got so blown out from scanning.”
Try changing the scanner settings to their defaults.
I don’t think they ate any of their critters. Beside sI bet he was a tough old bird.
As to the goat, they actually liked him (a little) He got bladder stones and they had taken him to surgery. He died shortly therafter though from bladder issues. Nasty bugger.
Roast Chicken and curried goat eh? Makes me hungry. Actually we are having BBQ pork ribs for supper.
Looks like it is going to be a very interesting painting. I think there are several breeds of chickens with those pom-pom heads, but the most common one is a “Polish”, I believe. I had one once. I have lucked out on all of my roosters, none that mean. I am down to just two hens, not sure if I will get more. Have had luck recently, but hat it when they die or something gets them. I am really looking forward to seeing more of this painting.