King of the Roost, Day 27 30 days hath September, 4x6 inch

 King of the Roost

Oil, palette knife painting

10x15cm (4x6 inch) on MDF panel

My first ever rooster/chicken.

I should have paid more attention to the background and I might redo the background for this. I was naughty and didn't pre-plan the background so I floundered a bit for which colours to use.

This has given me an idea of a rooster series for my kitchen in a larger size. I'm not particularly fond of chickens but I did enjoy painting this for some reason.

The challenges certainly has me trying a few different things. I have a couple of abstracts in the making which I am allowing to dry up a bit before putting on the final layers as I want a broken paint effect. So maybe tomorrow I will have an abstract for you.

Green Paraqueet Bathing Gouache painting

Bathing Paraqueet by Marion Hedger

13x18 cm (5"x7")

Gouache on canvas panel

Painted as part of the January 'Gouache Corner' challenge on wetcanvas.com. Unfortunately, in the photo, the weave of the canvas is very pronounced, it is not quite so obvious in real life. This is my second bird painting and I love the subject. It reminds me of the red Eastern Rosellas we used to get in our garden in Melbourne, Australia. Unfortunately I never took a photo, so have no reminders of them. I cropped this from the original photo which contains 3 green paraqueets all taking a bath. Maybe I shall attempt all three later. This will be varnished to protect the surface and allow it to be framed without glass.