Moa, a Barred Plymouth Rock and also the boss hen of my flock, is tremendous in her girth. At times she is truly large beyond imagination, and is seen here emerging from the ocean. Don't be jealous of her thunderous thighs!
The gulls are in no danger. She is too rotund to give chase.
Corel Painter, acrylic brush.
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I can't get over the way you painted those waves in the foreground, holy moly. I want to charge into them and them probably get knocked on my ass to flounder helplessly about. ANYWAY, dey pretty and look fantastic and refreshing, is what I'm saying. Obviously all that time spent painting water in duck stamp entries has paid off well!
I'm also really impressed by the detail level of the individual fibers in the feathers, dang.
Oh my god. This reminds me of Matthew Ebel's song, Surf Chickens:
~We could roll around the Earth
Collecting scratches, dents, and dirt
We could lie here in the sun, for all it's worth
Let's just be chickens in the surf~
http://matthewebel.com/store/songs-from-the-vault-vol-3/ Song number 5! A really great song.
Ever thought of doing something absurd like this for the duck stamp contest? It seems like they all look identical and boring every year.
I have. But, given that it takes 2-3 months to do the paintings and costs over a hundred bucks just to enter, AND you can only enter one painting, not so much.
Plus I don't really want to mock the program, it's a pretty important conservation tool. :)
Yeah, if it wasn't for the entry fee I'd be tempted myself. However, even something like your old underwater painting of duck butts would be funny without being too mocking. I really don't know what kind of people are doing the judging, but that would have been way more unique than what they normally have.
There are a lot of considerations, such as the print sales they have to make to the Average Joe Public that wants lovely, realistic ducks. I think a lot of people would be amused by a silly entry, and appreciate it, but not enough to warrant the expense of making prints and such.
The thought that any given design might cause LESS people to buy the stamp (which goes towards habitat conservation) is enough to nudge them to always pick the same sorts of things every year.
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I actually squealed with delight at the majesty of The Big Stink emerging from the sea.
Well played.