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Newton was fun, but things get better with is dad, Fig.



And there's a funny story about that.
 
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I've gotten to the skill level where I can paint other people's chickens and not feel too embarrassed by the result.  So I've opened up a section of the fan club for people to submit their chickens for free.  

I'm not ready to sell the paintings themselves yet as the paints I'm using need upgrading first.  But they can download the hig res scan of the painting if they like.

But alas, I'm only accepting submissions in the fan club at the moment.
 
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This private forum is growing from just chicken updates.  

There's conversations on Tolkien art, Pratchett art, different supplies, techniques, portraiture, and limited palette discussions...



So much more than just chickens.



Oh, and it's a one-time fee to get in, not a subscription.  
 
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I updated the promises on the digital market item to include submitting your chicken for painting.

At this time, my paints aren't good enough quality to sell actual paintings (we need more people in the 100 Chicken Fan Club to upgrade) as the student-grade paints aren't lightfast.  But it is good enough to scan in and provide a digital copy of the painting.
 
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Moonshadow comes to the human door each night to peck until we come out and she follows us to the henhouse.  Of course, we have to sing her theme song each night, but meh, that's what you do when you live with chickens.



 
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Wow, R,

I read all the way to the end of the thread just to say I am very impressed with your progress as a painter!

You go, Girl!
 
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My sister used to work in graphics and editing in Chicago, and this book was one of the projects on her desk. I still have my copy and wouldn't part with it for love nor money, but there might be some inspiration in its pages...https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/04/12/tamara-staples-fairest-fowl/

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r ranson wrote:The story begins here.  After some deliberation, I embarked on the quest to paint 100 chickens!   That's 100 different chickens.

Just want to take a moment to think about how many chickens that is.  

a lot


While solo adventures are okay, they are more fun with friends.

And then there's paints.  With 100 chickens, I'm going to need more paints and I figure if enough people have a couple of dollars to spare, it should get me through to the end.  (if not, then we'll think of something else.  But like permaculture, we start with the smallest change first and see where it gets us).


With this purchase, you get access to my 100 Chicken private forum and watch first hand how this



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As you can see, I'm still learning to paint.  And that's a big part of this adventure.  Having something meaningful to paint as I learn.  


for more information on how this project started, clickty here.




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Don't worry, I'll still post progress here so people can still follow along.  The updates won't be as detailed as in the private forum.

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In case you want to branch out, there's a potter in our neighborhood whose specialty is coffee mugs with chickens.

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Personally I love Petrichor against the blue background.  But many people have jumped on the gray and white home decor bandwagon lately, and a mostly grayscale painting would probably look much better in homes like that than the one with the bright blue.  

When you get a portfolio of paintings you are happy with, you could probably sell prints of them through a mass market art seller.  Even if you don't get much commission per sale, they market widely so you might just discover you have a nice little additional income stream from something you love doing.  Years ago I worked for a guy who owned an art gallery, and although he sold original paintings, he also sold giclee canvas prints mail order (framed or not) by artists who would send him new work every so often.  I don't know what their financial agreement was, but I helped scan in the original paintings in hi-res sections and then put them together in photoshop, ready to be printed onto canvas in several different stock sizes, even custom sizes if a customer wanted to pay extra for that.  His focus was themed, and chickens don't fit into that, but I'm sure there are many others who would happily add cool chicken artwork to their catalog.  I just recently saw chicken art not so different from yours printed on kitchen towels for sale!  

After I saw this thread, I went outside to see if I could get a good picture of Fishy Roo, my Salmon Faverolle rooster, for you to paint, but it was already starting to get dark and he just looked like a blob up in the lilac bush he loves to perch in.  Maybe I can do better another day...
 
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Tip...If you draw always without tracing from a photo you develop your amazing artists eyes that will give you the measurements and the details without using any tools other than from your living subjects and models. Only a skilled draughtsman artist understands the photographic distortions. So when you trace lines of the details from photos many students do not know how to see these  angles, colours and values giving you false information.
Here is my art all freehand drawn.checkout starrevisions on Instagram
 
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