Thursday 20 December 2012

A New Venture

Speckled Hen. Acrylic 20 x 20cms on stretched canvas
box frame £30
While looking through my photos for some inspiration for a painting recently, I came across a few shots of some bantams that I had taken at Coton Manor in Northamptonshire. Although the speckled hen here took up only a very small part of the photo, I was able to examine the bird in more detail using the computer to zoom in on a potential image.
The result was this acrylic painting of this fine specimen of a Belgium Bantam hen. She was running loose with a few other hens, as well as a cock bird, in lovely long grass filled with bluebells and cowslips - a very English background indeed.

Now the reason for this painting appearing in this post when the title is "A New Venture", is because I have set myself up with an online art shop, and this painting is the first item I added for sale. Although I've only been up and running for a few days, I've managed to list a few of my recent paintings and greetings cards that I have had professionally printed from these, as well as an old chair that I brought back to life. Hopefully the shop will grow,especially as I have more time for painting now, and I will sell lots of paintings and live happily ever after! Hmmmm, maybe that will be wishful thinking, but I did mention on Facebook that my new shop was open for business, and promptly made a sale - the morning sunrise painting I showed you in my last blog! It is now winging its way to the USA

For those interested to see what I am selling, here's the link:
http://folksy.com/shops/franksartshop

7 comments:

  1. Well the chicken is beautiful Frank! I really love your work with acrylics. And best of luck with your online shop! I hope you have more sales than you can manage. ;)

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  2. Hi frank.
    I like this painting of a Chicken. The Face is absolutely brilliant and alive. All the best Frank.
    Vic.

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  3. Luck with your paintings frank

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  4. Great painting and good luck with the new online shop Frank. Merry Christmas!

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  5. The chicken is beautiful Frank, I don't think it will be long before that is fluttering away somewhere!

    Best of luck with the shop.

    Happy Christmas.

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  6. Great painting! I love the brushwork!
    Lots of luck with your folksy store. It looks very nice. I wish we had folksy in the states.

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  7. Thanks Angela - I think the states version of Folksy is called Etsy.

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