My life has taken on a chicken theme lately, so naturally I had to paint a chicken coop. Why chickens? Fresh eggs, baby!
Ok, I'm not really that much of an egg devote but I do have an inner farm girl that's been under wraps for too long. Since my life doesn't seem to be going in the direction of moving to farm country, I decided to bring a bit of the farm life here. First, I have to build a coop (I'll let you know how that goes) then ~ 3 hens will be coming home to roost! I'm really looking forward to it.
One last thing, since I love a good work table photo…
It was kinda stormy here today so the painting started out with a rain cloud. I played around with using the watercolor crayons & the acrylics together. That combo may have potential. ♥
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You’ll love having chickens. When we lived in Washington we had a few. I really miss having them and fresh eggs are the best 🙂
Your train photograph is beautiful- Alaska looks amazing.
Very cute – I love the feel of this cute little chicken coop! I admire you using watercolor crayons. Haven’t tackled that yet. I’m so jealous you get to have chickens – and fresh eggs! I don’t think our neighbors would enjoy it if we had chickens, so we’ll have to stick with dog and cat… 🙂 Silke
Hi Lorraine! Glad to hear you had a good chicken experience. I’ve had a lot of encouragement from past chicken owners, so I feel like I’m not TOO crazy.
Silke, it’s funny…I actually called the zoning board here to make sure it was ok for me to have chickens right in town. They said I was probably fine, but did suggest – for the sake of the neighbors – that I don’t get a rooster. Sounded like good advice to me! I’m hoping my neighbors will help me use up the eggs. 🙂
~ k
I do I do waving hand in the air. This is our 3rd year to have hens and fresh eggs. I love it and we live in town. We just bought 5 chicks at the end of April and I am afraid one of our young hens is a rooster which we can’t have in town.
Hi Denise! Good luck with finding your little rooster a different home. 🙂 Since I won’t be bringing my chickies home until late July, I’m thinking of trying to get full grown hens that are already laying. + That way I’ll know what I’m getting ~ no surprise roosters.
~ k
Hmmmm…really, you can have chickens in town? Well, that’s something to contemplate… We have some very noisy neighbors in the back (loud parties until all hours of the morning) and just for them, I would love to have a rooster… 😉 Silke