Your Art Inspired by My Rooster, Bob

     Enjoy the art inspired by Helen's painting, My Rooster, Bob.
(The Inspiration Image is at the bottom of this post.)

Nelvia McGrath: Ode to Bob

@nelviamcgrath

Sketch book watercolor, 10"x 7" 

Well, Bob started as a loose watercolor strutting his stuff.  Yep, got a little watery on slinging the spritz, but still it adds some drama and mystery as to “why the heck is that there?”

Anyway as is usually the case, he got a bit tighter toward the end.  But it was sure fun adding all those luscious colors.

AJ: Farm Friend
Yarn Scraps & Cotton Stuffing

I made some little animals for my girls. 
Piglet was theit favorite.

Deidre Townsend: Coco

Acrylic on Canvas

Helen mentions the sounds around her home and list birds and their sounds.  Around many homes, including mine, you hear dog sounds! Before I even get inside from the garage, I can hear my dogs clamoring to greet me at the door. My friend, Becky, is greeted by her dog, Coco, with barks and a near toothless smile. 

Jeanne King: The Beginning Is Now

Gouache and Acrylic Paint Pens

Helen’s rooster was so beautiful; I decided to use it to explore the use of gouache and paint pens for intense color and lots of texture and pattern. Just as Bob heralds each new day, Lisa Congdon’s quote reminds us that we have many chances to start anew.

Sara Harley: Celebration

Photographic Art

@saraharley.studio

This spring I have been watching a pair of starlings who have been busy building a nest in a hydro pole. I have photographed them coming and going, to-ing and fro-ing, watching the gradual creation of their home. The colourful feathers of Helen's rooster Bob, combined with a photograph of a starling with a long piece of grass, made me think of ribbons. I combined those thoughts with the joy of spring, and created Celebration, my version of a maypole dance.

Inspiration Image:  My Rooster, Bob by Helen Eaton

I love the way my home sounds. Cardinals, blue jays, finches, chickadees, wrens, robins, hawks, crows, mocking birds, whippoorwills… There’s a pair of owls that call out to each other. A red headed woodpecker beats his percussive addition to the cacophony.  Soon there will be the hum of hummingbirds as they’ll flit around their feeders.  In a few weeks there will be the tiny peeps of chicks under running around their clucking mama hen.  There are caws, peeps, twitters, tweets, hoots, clucks, hums, whistles, and then… there’s Bob… Er er-er er-errrr! All… the… time…