best pals

Buckles loves when Abby comes home...Kris brought her home with her this past weekend...Buckles always hates to see her go back to CS.  Chance loves it when Abby leaves...I don't think he's ever going to like Abby.

figure study

I did this figure study using pastels yesterday afternoon...7x5 on canson paper.

pastel study

5x7 wallis sanded paper

Last night I painted this duck study from a photo I had taken at Crenshaw Park last year.  I want a couple of ducks, but DH says they are too messy, so I guess I'll just paint them.  

Lefty or should I say Left...

Lefty is the only rooster left.  Saturday after all the other roosters were processed, Lefty crowed for several hours...I guess he was calling his buddies.  He crows every time DH gets near the chicken coop and won't stop until he leaves or sometimes he just stands there and glares at DH.  Sometimes I think he has PMS! 
Just look at that scowl look on his face!  He was having one of his moments.  As soon as his spurs come in, DH will remove them.  

20 more and plucker...

My sister brought me 20 more chicks Wednesday night...there are 18 Dominique's and 2 Leghorns.

DH built this chicken plucker...he will be using it tomorrow to process 8 of the Rhode Island Red Rooster...They are 17 weeks old and are so mean...I'll be glad to see them in the freezer. 

new chicks pics...

This is a Dominique chick...we have two.
This is a leghorn chick...there are 11...they are good layers.

3 stooges

Abby, Chance and Buckles.  Kris was teasing them with Cheetos.  

new chicks!

My sister brought these chicks to me last night from the Houston Livestock Show.  They hatched this past week at the show in incubators.  They are so cute!  

charcoal sketch #2

I did this charcoal sketch from a photo of Britt...she was standing outside around noon when I took the picture.  It's on an 11x8 piece of gray Canson paper...I used the wrong side, so I'm not happy with it, but I'm not going to re-sketch it.  Britt will be home this weekend, so I plan on taking more photos of her in different dresses.  I'm also, planning on trying to copy a Edgar Degas pastel painting.  I keep hearing and reading that you can learn a lot from copying a piece done by a master artist.  Degas was a french artist who died in 1917.