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Strutting the Run

This is a painting I did a couple of weeks ago.  Chickens have attitude.  I wish I could and get away with it.  I would like to have a couple of hens for the garden bugs and for their eggs.  Need to get my husband to make a chicken coup, after he refinishes all my gold frames to ebony.

Woke up with a migraine, took medicine and it went away.  It's coming back so I had to take more.  I'm going to lay down with my headache bag. my two puppy dogs and the remote until the pain gets better.  I hope Dr. Phil has something good on his show, I'll find out very shortly.

I finished a large pastural scene with several outbuildings and black & white cows.  I also treated myself to painting a small 3 x 3" of a rubber ducky on top of a bar of soap!  That was so much fun.  Maybe I'll do a series of rubber duckies. - Brande    

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  1. Karen BrusonMay 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM

    Love everything about this one; the color palette, brushwork, composition...

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