Dirt By Amy Stewart: Chicken Paintings!

5&quot;x7&quot; oil on board.  This is 3/8 inch fiberboard with slots in the back so that you can easily hang it without framing.  <a href="http://www.pradashoes-discount.com/"><strong>prada discount</strong></a> The sides are painted black.  Click here to bid  (this auction begins at 6 pm on July 6) and go here to see more paintings. You can also find me and many talented artists on Daily Paintworks. It's been a while since I've posted any paintings here.  Life got very, very busy for a while--I have been on the road almost non-stop since late February--and before that I was helping get Wicked Bugs ready for publication and getting started on my new book. But that doesn't mean I wasn't painting!  The paintings from the last year have really started to stack up, so they have got to go.  I'll be posting them more regularly here, so I hope you'll follow along. This is Dolley, the queen of the roost.  She's incredibly easy for me to paint because I know her so well.  If you keep chickens, you know that they all have really distinct personalities, and Dolley is very sharp and sure of herself.  I used to paint my chickens in the garden, which is, of course, where they live, but one time I left the background out and I was really struck by how <a href="http://www.pradashoes-discount.com/chanel-shoulder-bags-2010-plum-11595400-p-6930.html"><strong>cheap chanel purses</strong></a> much I liked this simple portrait style.  I've painted a series of head-and-shoulder portraits very much like these of the entire flock. (Do chickens <a href="http://www.pradashoes-discount.com/lv-epi-leather-bowling-montaigne-gm-black-p-6607.html"><strong>louis vuitton damier belt</strong></a> have shoulders?  You know what I mean.) They hang above my kitchen sink.  I'm really going for a sort of Sears Portrait Studio look with these--that very bland, straightforward family photo that we all have hanging in our homes at some point. Anyway.  Here she is.  There will be more chicken portraits to come, I promise! Oh, and one last thing: You can find some of my paintings on notecards at Zazzle.  I'll continue to add more images as time goes on, and I might even do a calendar at some point, so stay tuned!

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