Hi blogging friends
Just thought I would share an item that I painted at a Decorative Painting Workshop a while ago. I grew up in the country so we had plenty of chickens and fresh eggs. I have fond memories of collecting fresh eggs on the weekends (I was at school during the week of course) and our family would often sit down to a lunch of freshly cooked eggs, a crusty loaf of bread and homemade butter, and I would always have a glass of rich, creamy milk from our Jersey cow. If you don't know about Jersey cows, they give milk that is super-rich and creamy (not so great for your cholesterol but we didn't know what cholesterol WAS when I was growing up LOL.....) - ahh, sweet memories of farm-life.
So, when I saw the chicken workshop advertised at my local Decorative Painting store, I thought it would be fun plus I rather liked the Trompe l'oeil effect of the chicken's head. If you don't know what Trompe l'oeil means, you can read about HERE at Wikipedia; in essence (quoting directly from Wikipedia) - "It is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions." Now my painting doesn't have a patch on other artists, but it was my first attempt and I was happy enough with my painting that I put it up on our kitchen wall. We are always our own hardest critics, don't you think? But as I get older, I tend to be more relaxed about these things and don't worry so much: there are other more important things to worry about!
The item was painted onto Craftwood (medium density fibreboard) using JoSonja acrylic gouache. Once the painting was left to cure (ie: dry completely) for several weeks, the painting was covered with water-based matt varnish to protect it.
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