#chicken

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, or how to grow tomatoes in five easy steps:

1) fill the with leaves and stuff

2) throw in some

3) close the door and let the chicken rampage for a bit

4) remove the chicken, and wait many months

5) actually grow tomatoes 🍅

Closed door. Toddler approves
Greenhouse with leaves
With added chicken

"What's wrong," sneered Jared. "Chicken?"

Devon remembered the chickens at granddad's farm, how they'd advanced on him, batting his legs with their wings, how he'd run away from them, clambering up a fence to get out of their reach.

He wished fervently that he WAS chicken. Or even better: rooster--domineering eye, broad chest, and razor talons.

... Maybe he could be both. He puffed out his chest, raised his arms, and advanced on Jared. "PIss off!" he snarled.

gouache chicken no 67

Doing master studies is making me think a lot more about what I am doing when doing these chicken sketches. The number going up also makes me feel like I don't "have" that many of these "left", I need to squeeze in all the experiments I can...

This one took me 1.5h, price is 1.5 x *your hourly wage*, DM me if you want it, A5 size (paper size, image itself a bit smaller).

a painting done in opaque watercolor on brown paper, of a reddish brown chicken seen from the front with its head turned to the right. There is bright sunlight coming from the right side of the image, the chicken and the ground it is standing on are in it, but the rest of the image is in a blue-ish gray shadow, with a dark opening in a wall just behind the chicken. The edges of the painting against the unpainted margins of the paper are sharply delineated where it was taped off during painting, and it is dated, signed and numbered in the bottom.
a detail view of the previous image, focusing on the head and feet of the chicken

gouache chicken no 61. I am rethinking my process on these, whether the 30 min time limit is still serving me or not. So this one was done without a time limit and I think came out at about 1.5h. It was a decidedly more relaxed way of working but I am not convinced it is any *better* than the 30 min ones 😂 . I'll probably keep playing around a bit with that.

Also, washi tape is absolutely wonderful for taping these!

a sketch of a chicken done in opaque watercolor on brown paper. The chicken is walking down a board from left to right, hit by sunlight coming from the right, in front of a dark background. It is reddish brown with some white marks, and seen in profile. The border of the sketch is sharply delineated where it was taped of during the making, but the tape has now been taken off. it is dated, signed and numbered in the bottom

I know it's too early for but you can follow @eclectech even on thursdays. I do love her , the different perspective on . If you like , intelligent fun and artist's wild creativity, follow now! For crafters:

quoted Schlesische Sagen 2 - Elben-, Dämonen- und Teufelsagen by Richard Kühnau (Schlesische Sagen, #2)

Richard Kühnau: Schlesische Sagen 2 - Elben-, Dämonen- und Teufelsagen (1911, B.G. Teubner) No rating

On one rainy day, a girl from the village walked through the grain field, and discovered a small chicken which was entirely wet. She took pity on the little animal, and took it with her.

When she had brought it home, it started to vomit grain, and in this manner it spat out several sack-full of grains. This was the [above-mentioned] dragon, which was flying through the air at night and was trailing a fiery shine behind it.

— Schlesische Sagen 2 - Elben-, Dämonen- und Teufelsagen by  (Schlesische Sagen, #2) (Page 30)

I knew that #dragons could take on all sorts of forms in #folklore .

But I have to admit that I did not have "grain-spitting #chicken " on my bingo card...