Rooster Painting In Oil Pastel Is Finished (mostly)
A Fowl Look White Rooster
10 1/2 x 13
Oil Pastel on Handmade Paper
Just a little more tweaking.
So here he is, finally. This is not at all what I envisioned when I started but all in all I like him.
I may still tweak the background a bit. Lighten it just a titch at the top. I have been vacillating between dark and light (you know, putting it in and then taking it back out.) at the top ever since I put in the background. Still . . . I think just a hint lighter.
He has a seriously fierce look to him here but then he did in real life too.
I’ll be posting the start to finish with this painting in the very near future.
Inspirational words for when you want to trash the painting your working on. (of which this rooster has been twice)
“Never give up, never surrender.” Tim Allen - Galaxy Quest
Never, ever, ever give up.” Charles Schultz
“Make it work people.” Tim Gunn
I looovee Tim Gunn. I could just squeeze him til he giggled. Oh yeah, Project Runway is back for a new season. But it’s moved from Bravo to Lifetime. Which is probably for the best. Other than Top Chef, Bravo’s programming has really been going downhill. (Okay way off topic here.)
Tags: Chicken Art, WIP
He does look fierce! I love it. He’s wonderful. When lightening the top, why not a few more strokes of yellow into the green so that it goes one step farther to completing the circuit? You have wonderful blues and violets at the bottom up through bright greens and that glorious red-yellow face, so maybe a little yellow into the top is what you’re fishing for. Just a thought.
He’s fantastic. I love how he came out. When something doesn’t work, it will always eventually work on a later try.
Quite a perky rooster there and yes he does have a bit of a fierce look. Great feathers and nice how you kept the white so nice and white.
For real, I am finding him very interesting — not much further to go, I would say. Funny how some paintings trap us.
Thanks everyone. He’s grown on me allot. I think I may already have a home for him, but we will see.