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Acrylic palette knife painting on stretched cotton canvas, 48" wide x 36" high, (1.5" deep, edges black).

From a collection of large scale chicken paintings that began with Giant Coffee Drinking Chicken which has a story as a reclaimed canvas. Some of my large scale chicken art will be in a Sept. 2011 show at Bragg’s Pie Factory in Phoenix Arizona. (Not actually a pie factory, it’s a gallery now.)

I painted ICED while it was well over 100 degrees outside, and since I have no indoor studio other than a tiny kitchen table, I had to paint these big guys outside on the patio. I would get up very early and get out there before it was intolerable. At least the paint dried really, really fast. As this progressed there was just no way I could paint another obviously hot cup of coffee, so he got iced.