New Eyes
She wasn’t just any chicken. She was a Lavender Orpington. And I knew I had to paint her.
To express the freshness of the experience, I approached the painting with no sketch and a painterly style. Short clips of the painting process are on Instagram at jrollinsart.
I didn’t know Lavender Orpingtons existed until Melissa invited me to her small farm. This is the first painting of many more to come from that visit.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust