TC ON OKANAGAN LAKE
iPad Drawing Limited Edition of 10
6" x 8" Canvas Print $29 including shipping.
TC Was very excited to hear about my iPad drawings and when she saw the brilliant colors of those translucent layers she asked to sit for an iPad portrait. I've created two drawings so far and there may be more to come, but I will paint her as well.
CHERRY PICKING CHICKEN
iPad Drawing Limited Edition of 10
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Ms. Chicken has arrived in the Okanagan and is recouperating with her traveling companion Snr. Azule. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Ms Chicken, she has been traveling the world for over 5 years visiting artists who paint her portrait. She has had many amazing adventures including getting lost several times, being unable to get painted due to a flood and getting smashed at a party (literally). You can follow her escapades from the beginning on her blog here.
The worldwide artists have hosted over 70 visits so far and it gets laborious to see all the paintings via the blog: I decided I would like to see all those portraits in one place, so I've compiled a collection on "The Traveling Chicken" Pinterest Board click here. All the links take you back to the original entries on the blog and you really need to visit the blog.
So back to Ms Chickens current trip. After a good sleep the couple headed out to the balcony to inspect the brightly colored geraniums which had just come into bloom. The weather was lovely and warm, the sun was out and spring was in the air. They frolicked among the leaves for a while playing hide and seek.
Then Azule, always protective of Ms Chicken, saw she was getting tired and suggested a rock massage. The only problem is he got it all wrong, insisting that this was the way it was done.
Over the next week before TC leaves Sea will be creating several iPad Drawings and at least one painting, so drop in again for more of Ms Chickens adventures in the Okanagan and an opportunity to purchase a unique chicken portrait.
The friends have requested to stay for Art Battle competition on June 16th, which their hostess, Sea Dean is participating in at the OK Corral. Then they will be on their way east. In the meantime they will be busy sightseeing and posing for portraits.
They are particularly interested in trying to spot the lake monster Ogopogo, depicted below in a collaboration between Sea and her nephew Spencer. I believe the reward for capturing Ogopogos image is what most interests Snr Azule, but Ms Chicken wants to swim with Ogopogo and ask him for a ride.
OGOPOGOS LUNCH BY Sea Dean and Spencer Arguedas
More about the past traveling adventures of Ms Chicken and her companions at http://travel-chicken.blogspot.ca
Follow Sea Dean at www.paintamasterpiece.blogspot.com
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In case you're wondering, although there are various gramatical rules, traveling is spelled with one 'l' in the USA and two 'll's in The UK. As the chicken started her journey in the UK, her title uses the UK spelling, although that is not set in stone. :)
After their exciting (and excitable!) visit to La Ville Oger, here in Morbihan (Brittany, France) Team Chicken needed a bit of light-hearted fun.
"Our left legs are still all creaky and stiff from hours in the Post Lady's van" they complained.
We had been packing up all our goods and chattels because we're selling almost everything and going traveling for a few years. Milly the Motorhome is waiting patiently outside, ready to roll when we say the word. but ... it meant that life was a little restricted during Team Chicken's visit and there was not much room for running around, getting exercise, and generally getting in trim for their long flight back too the States. There are way too many boxes and paintings and stuff littered around the floor space.
Mr Dog the Pilot had a brilliant idea. He doesn't get much of a chance to show off his piloting skills, so he suggested he give everyone rides on the front of his plane, one by one. Because they had to use all their leg muscles to stay balanced while he flew around, those cramped left legs would soon loosen up.
Did I mention that this is a very noisy visit that Team Chicken are enjoying? Yeah, well, it never seems to stop!
The racket that little yellow airplane made as it whizzed through tunnels of boxes, narrowly missing getting the wings caught on the handles of bags holding books, and doing the loop-da-loop at break-neck speed between the huge, ancient beams on the ceiling ... was simply incredible! Not to mention the squeals of delight and screeches of terror which seemed to alternate as each member of Team Chicken enjoyed their turn and begged for more, scuffling and niggling in the queue.
"Me next!"
"No! You've just had a turn!"
"Didn't"
"Did. Saw you."
"Hey! Don't elbow me!"
I must say, Mr Dog is actually quite the pilot! He never lost control once, kept his passengers well balanced, and clung tightly to their legs during the upside-down bit of the loop-da-loops so they wouldn't fall off. There was a huge round of applause for him when he finally called in tired and shoo-ed the fun-loving chickens out of their expectant queue.
Finally, there was quiet in the house and an exhausted Team Chicken had a good sleep before they caught their flight back home to Pandalana.
What an absolute delight it had been to host such a feisty and fun-loving crew.
"What is that incredible scratching and high-pitched sound which is coming nearer and nearer?" asked Senor Azul during their photoshoot, his eyes bulging from their sockets with fear. Team Chicken's visit was turning out to be a very noisy visit indeed. "I saw a flash of yellow! Very fast moving yellow!" he yelled.
"You're travel weary and just seeing the reflections from the Daffodils" his compatriots informed him. "Now sit still and stop rustling the flowers!"
Was it the yellow from these Daffodils he could see?
And then all hell broke loose.
In a strong whoosh! of a breeze, just like the recent weather we've been having, hundreds of fluffy yellow balls with orange bits landed on the photoshoot table, accompanied by the loudest tweeting noise you have ever, in your whole life, heard! Our photoshoot was being invaded by little yellow alien fluff balls!
The chaos of yellow and orange turned out to be loads of Easter chicks who had been packed away in a box for a few years, being moved that way from Ireland to France, and not having been unpacked since the move. And they were angry!
Easter chicks yelling their anger at Team Chicken
Team Chicken went quickly into action, squawking and flapping their wings and chasing yellow Easter chicks back into their box with the force of a sou' easter gale. However, a few of the brave chicks held their ground, refusing to budge until they were allowed to be part of the photoshoot.
"We have to be seen and get our voices heard out there in the Big Wide World. It's a disgrace that we have been packed away for so long, missing at least three Easter seasons!" their leader cheeped loudly. "And we'd like our leaders to accompany Team Chicken back to the States so that we can continue to reach more people."
Here's Team Chicken negotiating with the Easter Chick leaders
And so it happened that way. The photoshoot was wrapped up with the chicks keeping fairly quiet and behaving well, and their leaders joined Team Chicken in their box, now winging its way back to Pandalana in the States.
What a relief. That invasion could have turned out badly ... but how could it! It's totally impossible for Easter chicks to be nasty in any way whatsoever. They're cute and fluffy and smell of chocolate Easter Eggs.
Team Chicken should be given full credit for the diplomacy and wisdom they have learned on their travels around the world.
Responding to a sharp rapping on the window last week, we saw a very worried face appear on the other side of the glass. It was Post Lady Chantal gingerly holding a big brown-paper-wrapped parcel at arms length. "I think I heard this parcel clucking!" she stage whispered. "Quick, you take it." And she sped off, her spinning tyres flinging the mud from our recent heavy hail and rains back at us. We ducked and luckily it missed both us and the clucking parcel.
I knew exactly who was to blame for setting the Post Lady's nerves on edge ... and I was right. The clucking turned quickly to muttering as I opened the box to find The Traveling Chicken Team. "She packed our parcel at an angle for hours." Complained Senor Azul. "All our left legs are aching from being tilted for so long!"
Soothing sniffs came from a sympathetic nostril and Team Chicken were soon relaxed and posing, ready for their photographs to be taken. They're quite the prima donnas it would seem and know which side is their best side for photographs.
The sniffing nostrils belong to Bridie the German Shepherd ... and she loves chicken!
Luckily, on that day, she'd had a good breakfast and decided that the loving and caring Big Bear Bridie was the dog she wanted to be. She sniffed and nudged and blinked her big brown eyes, calming Team Chicken as they relaxed beneath the lilies and daffodils. (A little toweling off of the Chickens was needed after one rather enthusiastic sniff though).
The photo shoot went well .... or did it? Find out in the next blog how Team Chicken were invaded!
Just as I was about to paint Ms Chick and the gang again I noticed that Senor Gallo Rozzo was
missing and in his place was an impostor A ceramic chicken. Senor Gallo Rozzo had been kidnapped. I picked up the phone to call 911 when out of the blue Senor Gallo Rozzo was seen in the corner just squawking away it was the funniest thing because the stranger that he was squawking at now was his very own reflection in the mirror. I gave him a piece of pecan pie and it settled him right down. The other members of the gang just stood there like statues waiting for him to share and to my surprise he did just that....
Ms Chick and the gang arrived at my home in Alabama last Thursday. As I carefully picked up the box I could hear something. It was like squawking and flapping and yes even fussing. As I opened the lid and removed all the bubble wrap it was clear to see what the fuss was all about. Senor Gallo Rozzo had two broken legs and he was sure putting up a fuss. I gently lifted him out and reached for the super glue and sweet tea I am a registered nurse you know so he was in good hands. He laid there quietly as I fixed him right up. He was a little stiff but soon was back to his old self. I have a feeling that it is his character to be just a little bit grouchy bless his little heart. Anyway as I posed them for a picture I just could not get him to stop yelling at the others. It was like he was blaming them for his misfortune. I promptly set him down and had a little motherly talk with him and soon he was laughing and singing and playing games. He finally realized that he was as good as new. When I packed them back in the box to ship to the next adventure he insisted on going last just in case....
