Chooks in the Garden

this is magnificent, it has a 3-d feel to it, especially with the rusty colored bits.

I love these, cluck cluck

i knew this is yours =D love those chooks, they work well as a series with your Crowned cranes.

Reminds me of my grandfathers ‘hen yard’ :) Beautiful.

Thanks All for your comments. I’m sort of going off in this direction for a little while I think – with birds/other animals. Trouble is I need to get a lot closer to some of the wild birds, but they’re not always so obliging!

Whirligig, I love this one and am interested in buying a t-shirt if that’s possible.

I’d better add that price may be an issue, so I can’t promise. But I’m keen. :)

Alison, I haven’t uploaded the image for t-shirts, but will see what’s involved. Will try tonight. Thanks for the compliment.

Alison, I have managed to upload the image as a t-shirt design, but didn’t want to reduce it too much in size for fear of losing the chickens! Also, rest assured, I fully understand the price issue thing.

Hey!!! it is big as well… I went to the tshirt pic first! This is a beautiful painting, Whirligig. Well done!!!

ok, maybe painting isn’t quite the right word… but you know what I mean. It does look like a painting!!!

Thanks for the comments everyone – I really appreciate them.

Masterful work of art !

These chooks look like they are in paradise. The background sets them off beautifully and their poses are spot-on.

Thanks Cliff and mawaho. I absolutely adore chooks. Unfortunately I can’t have any where I live now, which is sad, so I have to be content with drawing them or making images of them

Chooks are great, your artwork makes them look even better!

Chooks are indeed great

Great stuff. Just like chooks, lol.
I can see an Aboriginal face in the thumbnail, to the right of the 4th chook down. I think it actually drew me to the painting.
Even if it’s not there, I love it.

Wow, William, it’s amazing how people who look objectively at something see different things. I had another look and can also see the face now – it wasn’t intentional, certainly not on a conscious level. But as I work very much on my “feelings”, who knows….... Also, while studying in the ‘90’s I worked on images relating to my past, which included African masks/spirituality and Christian crosses. I see faces in another person’s work here on RB too, and hers aren’t intentional either, which makes this all the more interesting. And like her, I am not religious, but I am deeply spiritual. Thanks for commenting.

I love chooks and I really love this image. Well done.

wonderful homely feel

I’m also a big fan of chooks. We have four and they follow me around the garden, scratching the ground at my feet. This is a lovely painting. You just know there’s going to be lots of juicy worms and beetles under all those leaves.

These chooks are fantastic! Love the composition and the colours.

Thanks Ivy, LucidPieces, Matt, and Lyn.

Well done!!!love it.

Thanks Lance, I’m pleased you like it!

Hey Whirligig, I paid for the tee today. Can’t wait to wear it to the farmers market :)

Congratulations on being featured on Anneli’s The Age blog, Whirligig!

Thanks for letting me know Matt, I didn’t even know!!

Cograts on your feature whirli!

This is nice; I like it more than real chooks :)

Your comments are really appreciated Helene and Damian. Well, I’ve certainly achieved something if you like it more than real chooks Damian!

gorgeous…

Thank you, Ange.

I can only say…..eggsellent !

Good one MrCreator – I like it! Thanks for the comment.

I think I’ve seen a seires of these chooks before at a printmakers exhibition, could I be Right?

Did you draw these? They’re great!

Hi MBartworks. I’ve never exhibited this image other than on RedBubble. I do have other prints that revolve around chooks and family, but were part of my art studies, and once again, have never been publicly exhibited. So, alas, unfortunately I cannot claim fame to the series you saw at the printmakers exhibition!

Evangeline, thanks for your encouraging comment. To answer your question, the background is compiled of several layers in photoshop and the chooks were drawn on top of those layers, using a graphic tablet.

Lovely work. Great composition. Well done.

This is wonderful, the colours are gorgeous and I just love chooks.

This is simply great…. very well conceived and executed

Beautiful background! Nicely done!

How nicely and beautiful done! (Thanks for your comment)

I have commented today that I envy the Artistry and knowledge that goes into producing a work such as this….I can only sit and look and enjoy all that I ‘See’........and in this I see so much..it is beautiful…Thank you…

Pagly2, you are so welcome. Thank you for taking the time to look at my work and commenting on it.

I never thought I would say this about a chook picture but this is really really wonderful. I do like this a lot.

wonderful ..are chooks ..chickens?

amazing imagery!!

Great picture, love the hens they look really natural.

I love your use of colour here great piece

This is so beautiful – lyrical, capturing the motion of chooks. Great colours too.

Elaine – It is so wonderful to find a like minded chooky person! I really love them…..

Fabulous..this looks great.