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(Original Sold)
This artwork was done as a commission for someone who liked my first Giant Coffee Drinking Chicken painting, but was looking for smaller art. This one is 20 × 16 inches. The first one was 60 × 48 inches, (hence the “giant”). Acrylic palette knife painting on cradled wood panel.

It’s hard to categorize my style. Some feel it is surrealism but it’s not quite, not all the time anyway. Perhaps the concepts are surrealistic but there is little in some of them that’s stylistically what most people think of as surreal, and yet it’s not a cartoon either. So, it is hard for me to explain verbally what my genre is but I usually tell people, “Well, it’s kind of humorous surrealism, sometimes dark humor, sometimes just absurd.” These chicken paintings are a good example of works I can’t quite categorize. Some of my tighter style, more planned, work is closer to actual surrealism, like the Hen Madonna below.

Regardless whether I’m working large, small, detailed or with a palette knife, in paint or in monochromatic drawing materials, there is an underlying current of creatures, expressions, whimsy, and weirdness.