Poultry Pageant

 

Acrylic, 10x20 inch on a wide cradled canvas.  

I've been laid up with a bug for over 3 weeks while the painting waited impatiently to be completed.  The canvas sat around in my studio for several years waiting for the perfect subject matter.  Seems I'm stuck on birds lately having painted three different crow paintings in a row.  I love birds and have made our yard bird friendly in order to watch their antics along with the squirrels.  A photo reference from pixabay.com inspired me for this piece but needed some editing to fit the canvas and work out other issues.  I edited the photo quite a bit pumping up the colors, adding the fun decorative details like stripes and checkers.  One of the end chickens faced looking out of the picture, flipping it to face the other chickens made a better composition. 

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

Beginnings

Acrylic on stretched canvas - 12x16 inches, contact me if interested

This is more an imaginative painting where I explored drips and splatters in the background.  The bird nest had fallen from under my deck with blue eggs scattered around, there were at least 6 to 8 eggs laying in front of the nest.  No wonder the nest fell, the birds were definitely over achievers!  I felt bad for the robins but it was a great photo opportunity for me.  After dripping and playing with the background I notice a bird shape appear in the upper righthand corner and added some soft detail to enhance it.  Mom or Dad robin will always be watching over their nest.

(c) Deborah Ann Kirkeeide

Fabric Of Life

Seems like forever since I've posted anything; I've been busy with a personal project all winter.  This is another experiment with mixed media using inks, stamps, stencils and acrylics that I painted last fall. The cross is interwoven and embedded in a quilt like fabric image which represents the busy, distracting, conflicting, yet beautiful life around us.  I see this as the workings of Christ embedded in life and cannot be separated.  The many names of Jesus are added here and there throughout this piece.  This is a God inspired image as the idea came to me clearly one day and as I worked it just fell into place; that rarely happens as I usually have to dig long and deep when not working with realism.  I'm so pleased with this image that I would love to see this piece reworked on a large scale.  The original piece is 11x14 inches on stretched canvas.