Acrylic on canvas, 20x16"

The painting is on a stretched canvas, painted round the sides, with string on the back, so it is ready to hang as it is or can be framed if you prefer.

Chickens make me smile. They seem to have lots of character and they are also quite beautiful in their colours and markings. I wanted to make their colours stand out by painting the background in muted turquoise and shades of grey, but I put in lots of details to show where they were and because in almost monochrome the background looked like a decorative pattern to me.