Lydia and some friends jumped at the opportunity to attend a "Paint Your Pet"
art workshop on Wednesday evening. It was a full class of 20 people.
Lydia chose a selfie photo to paint a portrait of Chickadee who died in
February 2020. Chickadee was a beautiful big Rhode Island Red hen.
Lydia chose to draw the outline of her painting on canvas using the grid method.
Two coats of background acrylic paint was applied to the canvas.
The first layers of colour was painted on the chicken outline.
Tools of a budding artist: the paint pallet, brushes and water.
More layers of painted detail develop.
More shading was applied to the Chickadee painting. Lydia found the
hen's wattle and beak the hardest to paint, so the teacher helped out.
Lydia was proud of her painting efforts after a few hours of tuition.
The final painting. Chickadee's iris in her eye
was outlined using a black fine liner pen.
