What Cows Do Best

6 X 8 Ink on index $25

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There's not much grass left in the pasture for this kind of activity. No rain means no grass...and no flowers for the bees. I am feeding them a quart of 50% sugar water a day - and they'd take more. The bees are NOT in a good mood, either. When I removed the empty sugar water jar last night at sundown, they came after me and I got stung on the hand. Now half my right hand is swollen and itchy - not good. Guess I'd better start walking more cautiously around them!
The chickens are cutting back on their laying, too - but good old Moe, the naked-neck chicken, is uglier than ever and still laying the biggest eggs every day. Today's Sunday school lesson for my teenagers was about God not seeing the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.
Same with Moe - she would end up last place in a chicken beauty pageant - heck, they may not even let her in!!!! But she is the best layer AND the best at getting after the grasshoppers. AND she survived the great coyote massacre of 2010. As far as I am concerned, she is perfect.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

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5 x 7 Oil on Canvas Board $115
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A follower of my blog requested a painting similar to one I painted nearly a year ago - of Easy standing over his feed pan with a rooster watching - both waiting to be fed. I told her I may paint another one similar - keep watching. That sent me on a search through my archives of chicken photos and I found this handsome fellow. I hadn't painted him yet, preferring those roosters with a little more red in their tail and body feathers. But he has such a nice collar of orange around his breast that I decided to give him a try. Now I think I'll paint him with a horse - and possibly a hen - back to the archives.....
Luke 12:37
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.

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6 X 8 Oil on Masonite SOLD

I met one of my patrons this weekend – over the phone. Chris lives in California, has an artist’s soul and loves artists. She is very generous with her praise and appreciation for us daily painters. Unfortunately a number of packages were stolen from her porch recently and they included several paintings from me and other daily painters! Chris lost 2 paintings from me – one of Easy asking “Where’s Dinner?” and another of a rooster with 2 hens – “Bigamist”. I have learned a lesson here – always insure paintings. Always. Even if they are on masonite and practically indestructible. There is still chance of theft.
I have had a very busy past few days, but have kept Chris in my mind and painted this little painting for her this evening as a small token of my thanks for her patronage and concern for us daily painters.
Chris, as soon as this is dry, it’s coming your way! Thanks and blessings.
Psalm 35:9
Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.

Trigamist

6 X 8 Oil on Masonite $100 unframed SOLD
$130 framed

I recently visited a shooting range to practice shooting a handgun. Yes, many of us Texans, including women, are quite proficient with firearms! The range was set up at a neighbor's farm and the yard was filled with chickens and one magnificent peacock (you'll see HIM later!). I can never resist shooting (with a camera!) birds of any kind, so here is another proud rooster with a part of his harem.
Another fellow Daily Painter suggested that since these little paintings are sometimes difficult to frame, she offers her patrons the opportunity buy her paintings framed, and I will do so as well. The framed price includes the extra shipping and insurance.
Genesis 2:19
Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

The Bigamist

8 X 6 Oil on Masonite $50 SOLD

I live in a rural area between the towns of Stephenville, Morgan Mill and Bluff Dale, Texas. I am closest to Morgan Mill, but I have a Bluff Dale address and a Stephenville phone number. Our closest neighbor (200 yards as the crow flies, but a mile away by road) has a Bluff Dale number. I love the idiosyncrasies of this area, particularly the chickens that have the run of “downtown Morgan Mill” – which is about 1.8 miles from me. They supposedly belong to a man in town, but they pretty much have free rein to roam. My daughter lives in Morgan Mill, and I wish she would encourage the chickens to lay eggs at her place. I doubt that is possible, though, because chickens tend to be very loyal to their nesting area. There are several roosters, and all have a harem that they vigorously protect and guard from other roosters. This handsome fellow actually has the most hens at the moment, but I only painted 2 of them this time. This is my first attempt at painting poultry but I think I will probably do more…

Jeremiah 17:11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is the man who gains riches by unjust means. When his life is half gone, they will desert him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool.