Black Star Cameo

 

Sweet and sassy Beans is a Black Star beauty, and super fun to paint in my brand new Chicken Art Journal!!  I started this in ink, but when I tried to move that ink with water, it did not move at all!  Hardly any color deposited from my watercolor brush, so I moved to acrylics.  I had limited colors in my travel kit, and found I needed more.  They were not staying wet long enough to mix on the very porous paper.  This sketchbook is going to be an exploration of mediums for this specific elephant poo paper, lol! Painting number 4814 in 4814 days. 

Santa and Beans Mini

 

Blush is such a lovely ink to render Santa cuddling our hen, Beans! Santa likes his chicken cuddling time as much as we do!  This ink took a lot of coats to get this dark, and is rather light on the first layer.  Beans is a Black Star chicken, with a sparky, sweet personality.  Smart and quick to the treats, she's always aware of where the goodies are.  She has lovely red orange feathering from head and neck that turns a shiny black with blues and greens in the light.  I'll need to paint her in oils one day, too do her coloring justice.  Painting number 4735 in 4735 days.