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I have every Wed off. It makes for The. Best. Schedule. Work 2 days, have a day off, work 2 days, have 2 days off. I don’t paint chicken pictures on my Wed off. The hubby and I use it to do the mundane things in life, like grocery shop. We also use it to do the non-mundane things in life, like see a new exhibit at one of the museums, try out a new restaurant or, when the weather is glorious, engage in a drink crawl of the restaurants with patios along the waterfront, the North End or the BackBay.

@ S. Weasel,
Why don’t you branch out to scathing animal comparisons to politicians. Here’s one you can start with:
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That’s my schedule now too, ArmyBrat. I love it. And my Fridays are a bit short and punctuated by coffee at a local (16th C) coffee house with the locals.

You could always turn them into chicken gods staring wrathfully down at their minions…The nine circles of chicken hell, chicken Cthulhu about to destroy a village, or chickens tormenting foxes and badgers. (No offense meant Uncle B)

There’s also the odd stuff that turns up when you examine the mundane more closely than customary. Here‘s a recognizable example. This one’s closer but it’s still clear what it is. Then there’s the really strange things you see in images from scanning electron microscopes, such as this one of a pheasant eggshell (from image #21 in this livescience series).

There are endless possibilities if you use your imagination about where to look at things from. Then paint away!

But be careful or you’ll end up in Gahan Wilson territory!

I like the chicken idea, and fully endorse you carving out the niche of Mistress of Chicken Rage.

So far as I know, it’s all open to you, and you alone.

People love chickens. Why not paint your house?

Paint Your Weasel would be a pretty good band name.

@Pupster – Yes, that’d be a good band name.

Irrelevant aside: I compare any good band names I hear to my all time favorite, and after many years it is still on top of the heap. A long time back, in Durham NC, a fellow I know was the sound man for Sorry About Dresden.

Stoaty – You touched on what could possibly be your niche!

Paint chickens with realistic (or surreal, or whatever) “alternate” expressions.

You mentioned “rage” – how ’bout real Jack-The-Ripper Homicidal Rage?

Or a “contemplative” chicken? Bemused? Confused? Skeptical? Drunk? Stoned?

Or – my favorite – the sheer ecstasy of egg-laying.

I expect few of us are who/what/where we thought we’d be when we were sixteen 🙂

I agree, Deborah.

I heard “You’ll be dead or in jail by the time you’re 25!” so many times I began taking it as a dare. Lived life, made mistakes, moved forward.

Looking back, I’m shocked that I wasn’t. Had more fun than I deserved getting to this point of being shocked. Nostalgia, it ain’t what it used to be.

I need to art more often. I blew off an art-school scholarship to join the Marine Corps. Suffice to say professional academia and I didn’t exactly get along. But Stoaty, the thought of capturing Chicken Rage in media has awoken some slumbering creature in my brain. I’ve never been a renderer, nor will I ever be. But that itch to translate the chaos roiling in *that* part of my brain onto/into something tangible is screaming to be scratched.

I sincerely thank you, and all of you here, for contributing to this epiphany. I mean it, not shitting you. Thanks.

Side note: Fritz, when next you visit The Estate, the interior view should be more interesting!

Anything would beat the ‘old’ place Lester! You should invite all of Swease’s imaginary internet friends over for a tour and a toddy…

Mincing Mockingbird has a charmingly macabre take on ornithology. I want one of everything.

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Why not paint weasels?
You seem to have some ability in that regard.

It’s down to source material, Veeshir. I don’t have any locally to observe.

I mean, yes, I use photo reference. Not many eschew photos altogether these days. But a) I prefer to use my own photos and b) even then, I’m very careful about them. If I find myself just copying photos, it’s just…it’s just not good. I like to have at least a few different photos and a pose that’s not exactly any of them.

I’m talking fine art, obviously. For the blog, it’s Liberty Hall and I have great fun knicking other people’s photos and scribbling on them.

Good luck to you, Lester!