Tropical Chicken

March 10, 2012 - 8"x10" Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

We spent a week on Kauai in mid-February, and I got a few pictures worth painting.  This is the first.  I completed between Preview Thursday and Second Saturday (March

Kauai is covered with chickens.  The theories are that the ancestors were brought by early Polynesians; or were in chicken coops that were destroyed by hurricane Iniki in 1992; or both.  This big fella was hanging outside our bungalow at the resort.

I've decided to start attributing paintings to series and this is the fourth in my Bird Series (after the eagle, hummingbird and love birds) and the third in my Hawaii Series.





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