8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
I have seen Hm many things in lost and found boxes, but I have never seen TIME. You gotta make time. I am grateful for the time I find to make art.
I’m Crowing!
8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.” -Muhammad Ali
Hurrying Across
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Out of all the crazy thing I have seen in lost and found boxes, I have never seen TIME. Time is a hard thing to find. You have to MAKE time for things most important in your life. Today I am painting while my son attends a pole vaulting camp.
That spec in the top half of the frame is my fledgling learning to fly!
Rooster Morning Light
8″x8″ oil on panel
It took this beautiful rooster almost 18 months to find his voice, and each day he seems to find it a little louder and a little earlier.
Rooster Painted Desert Palette
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
I started this painting with a value underpainting. It was fun to play with stroke and color once the values were established.
Rooster Rosey Day
The light made the grass look pink. It was a lovely afternoon.
Wake up! Wake up!
The roosters remind me of children on Christmas morning, they are so excited it is ALMOST day that they want to share it with everyone. Note I said ALMOST day. I did some research as to why there are so many roosters in Kauai. Here is what I learned: 1. the chickens have no predators except the occasional feral cat or house dog, all the other islands have a mongoose that keeps their populations in check, 2. Hurricane Iniki (1992) destroyed some chicken farms blowing the chickens out onto the island, and 3. they were fighting cocks (1800s) that were released into the wild because they were female, or injured. The last reason may explain why they are perhaps the most handsome of all the chickens I have seen in my life.
Cock a doodle doo! Get up and hit the trails, it is time…or it least it might be by the time you have made coffee and put on sunscreen, so why not get up anyway?
Roadside Chicken
“Why is everyone always questioning my motives? “
Take 15 and wake up!
This is a 7″x5″ study. I have been painting a couple of very large oil paintings, and I miss my pastels, and actually finishing something. I took a coffee break, and painted this little guy while my coffee brewed.
Rooster on Teal
I came across this painting today. I didn’t like it, but I hadn’t thrown it away. So I sat down to figure out why it didn’t work. The background had to much contrast, and was perhaps the wrong color. (sorry no before picture). Originally the background had bright green and yellow (which is how the grass really looked), and had a lot of the dark paper showing through. So I took a hard teal pastel and scumbled over the entire background. Ta-da! It works now. Sometimes reality isn’t the best place to base your subjects.
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