What advice to you have for aspiring artists?
Where do you get your inspiration?Other times I am inspired by my frame maker. Owen Tomlin makes frames from reclaimed barn wood in Kentucky. I like to paint images that will work with is amazing hand crafted frames, so I might do an entire series on barnyard animals or botannicals because I know they will look great hanging together as a group, all framed in Owen's frames.
Picture credit: Detail of the tail feathers of "Le Coq du Village"
Congratulations to Cow Art and More artist Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson for having her artwork, "Le Coq du Village", chosen for the February 15, 2010, cover of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The magazine is the official bimonthly publication for the 78,000 veterinary members of the American Veterinary Medical Association and contains current events, case studies, and research articles. Elizabeth's art was chosen to grace the cover because of its unique qualities and artistic representation of roosters. Unfortunately, the editor will not give permission to have the cover shown in any way to others outside of its members, but know that it looks great and makes Cow Art and More proud to be able to represent Elizabeth and her art.
I thought with all the interest as of late that people are showing in agriculture and growing their own food, today's agriculture website of interest is Backyard Chickens. The site has a lot of information and personal experiences of people having their own small flock of chickens at their home. A warning though, the website is loaded down with a lot of advertisements, so you will have to be patient with the pop up and banner ads. Overall though, it looks like a lot of interesting information for those looking to get to some farming roots. It includes articles from how to hatch and feed baby chicks, to how to build your own chicken coop. There is also a "chicken forum" to allow fellow chicken enthusiasts to chat and answer each others' questions.
