Since I'm rather tired of looking at the abstract I painted for my son, and since I'm not finished with 3 paintings I am working on right now, I thought I'd post a favorite until I can get my act together and finish something.
My friend, Rose Gesford, (who is possibly my biggest "fan"), added this guy to her collection of roosters and it looks great on her wall. It's very gratifying when a friend wants to purchase one of your paintings...especially when they are watercolorists themselves.
Big Red is actually the "man" of my chicken ranch (the Texas girls from Artcolony have named my place so aptly). For those of you who know nothing about how really stupid chickens are in general...the hens don't even go into the chicken house at night unless he leads them. Such a funny sight to watch them around sundown as you might call it "single file, Indian style". I do have other little bantam roosters, but Big Red is King of the Roost for sure.
.jpg)
He is simply fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThat is a great painting. I really like it!
ReplyDeleteMollie, Big Red looks absolutely regal. Well done.
ReplyDeleteAnother of your big fans:-)
mollie.. love this.. it feels loose!!! wonderful colors in the tail... and your favorite red is perfect!!
ReplyDeleteThe colors are superb, but even better is the modeling of his head. I can see why your friend wanted this painting hanging on her wall.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful painting of Big Red! He is so grand ... and knows it! Big Red rules the roost!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gretchen, Mary, Christiane, Cindi, Ann, and Nita...I really appreciate your kind comments. Chickens are really fun to paint and I have several others drawn up...now to get to painting them.
ReplyDeleteHe's soooo cute ! And are we at all surprised that you would name him Big " RED " !?!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Bantys ! Haven't been around any for YEARS tho. Gonna have ta come down your way some day Mollie and meet this guy!!
Wow Mollie! this is GREAT!! i Love him!!
ReplyDeleteI can see why Rose would want him!
Thanks Janet and Suzy. The chickies are really fun to fool with...and they're great subjects to paint. When I decided to get them, I decided on all brown egg layers, and 6 different colored breeds so I do have a rather pretty flock...if you call chickens pretty??? Big Red eats out of your hand he's so tame.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful painting of Big Red. I can tell you love him.
ReplyDelete