Posted by Kirsten Beitler on Monday, December 10, 2012,
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The Art of Painting
With my love for Pre-Renaissance religious art feed by my recent trip to the LACMA and The Getty which both featured 100's of delicious icons, altar pieces, and illuminated manuscripts, you know that the inevitable result would be similar pieces. Of course, most of my pieces feature chickens. I'm not trying to be sacrilegious or anything. I just really like painting chickens.
Here's my nod to the venerable subject matter of the Madonna and Child with a chicken lovers twist, "Mother and Child...
Posted by Kirsten Beitler on Wednesday, July 18, 2012,
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The Art of Painting
I thought ya'll might like to see a bit of the "process" that goes in to my painting. Those are snarky air quotes because it's honestly nothing spectacular. I don't have a lot of great theory to back up my work, nor do I take it too seriously,maybe I'd be a better artist if I did. Who knows.
One of my hens died so I thought I'd add her to my Celestial Chickens series. The Celestial Chickens are just fun to paint. It's not a portrait of a person, so the stress of a true likeness is gone and chi...
Posted by Kirsten Beitler on Saturday, December 10, 2011,
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The Art of Painting
Here's the latest from my celestial chickens series, Three Candy Canes. Watercolor, acrylic, gold pigment and gold leaf on 150 lb cold press watercolor paper. Merry Christmas!
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