Rough dry brush drawing of the unfocused chicken who intends to get focused soon.
12 x 16 inches
Ink wash Zen Chicken with a brain full of blues.
12 x 16 inches
Wet shapes painted with water, then turquoise acrylic ink added to reveal the large shapes.
12 x 16 inches
Zen Chicken does the Fountain Pen Dance with pyramids of grey tones.
12 x 16 inches
Zen Chicken in Spring
Sumi ink bold stroke with rubber stamp letters celebrating Spring 2021
14 x 17 inches
Brush strokes might add up to Zen Chicken.
Black 3.0 acrylic paint on plein air watercolor board. 12 x 16 inches.
Brush strokes + Dada eye might add up to Zen Chicken.
Black 3.0 acrylic paint on plein air watercolor board.
12 x 16 inches.
Zen Chicken Scratch was created with a soft rubber painting tool that has a sawtooth edge.
Drawing in acrylic ink, rubber stamp and gesso.
12 x 16 inches on watercolor board.
Original and prints for sale.
Monoprint Zen Chicken in Black 3.0 acrylic paint onto wet paper. Vermilion acrylic gouache stencil bee with rubber stamped z letters.
12 x 16 inches on watercolor board.
"The contest [between the wave and particle theories of light] is something like one between a shark and a tiger, each is supreme in its own element but helpless in that of the other."
-- Sir J.J. Thomson
-- 12 x 16 inches on watercolor paper.
-- Original and prints for sale.
Zen Chicken and the Street Dabber is made with India ink using a diffusion technique, then pounding on top with a street dabber. The rough street art aspect of this Zen Chicken is contrasted with the elegant Corinthian column rubber stamp. Art and art history connect across time in this drawing.
Drawing in India ink, rubber stamps, street dabber and acrylic on hot press watercolor paper.
For Sale
Dry brushed Black 3.0 acrylic paint into a Zen Chicken with the flamboyant bouffant of the Polish breed.
12 x 16 inches on watercolor board
"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs." Bill Watterson
The Zen Chicken is interested in the bug in the foreground of this drawing. This is a very fast ink drawing that flows into a chicken calligraphy. The bug was a little afterthought to emphasize the gesture of the chicken curving toward us. Prints Available
“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 This Zen Chicken is in the act of meditation but colorful thoughts are flitting around in his stream of consciousness. Prints Available
This Zen Chicken with calla lily stencils is inspired by a lovely wedding I recently attended. There were thousands of beautiful calla lilies at the wedding. This Zen Chicken is running in the wind because the bride's dress was covered in feathers. Prints Available
“It’s important that people understand dinosaurs are still among us,” says Mark Norell, chair of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. “They’re represented by at least 13,000 species alive today.”
The birds of today are descended from feathered dinosaurs. Ginkgo trees are also prehistoric.
Contemporary influences are seen in the street dabber black in splatters, the rubber stamping, and the stencils.
This Zen Chicken celebrates the prehistoric plumaged fauna of his predecessors and the flora through which they hunted.
Prints Available
Schiaparelli/Dali designed the iconic “Lobster Dress” which debuted in Schiaparelli’s Summer/Fall 1937 Collection. The Lobster dress is a simple white silk evening dress with a crimson waistband featuring a large lobster painted (by Dali) onto the skirt. It is rumored that Dali wanted to apply real mayonnaise to the lobster on the dress but that Schiaparelli objected.
This zen chicken of the sea is inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli's famous lobster dress and my appreciation of the beach and high fashion.
Drawing: Ink, Stencil, Acrylic and Gouache on Paper. 12 x 16 inches on hot pressed 140 lb watercolor paper. Prints Available
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. - Max Ernst
India ink and ink wash, rubber stamps in archival ink on 12 x 16 inches 140 lb. Stonehenge hot press watercolor paper.
Prints Available
“Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12 x 16 inches Ink and rubber stamp on 140 lb Stonehenge Watercolor Paper. Prints Available.
Exuberance is better than taste. -- Gustave Flaubert
Zen Chicken with Geometric Tail is Ink, watercolor, and rubber stamp on 140 lb Stonehenge hot pressed watercolor paper. 12 x 16 inches. Prints available.
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. — Koji Nakanishi
16 x 12 inches India Ink and acrylic paint stencil on 140 lb Stonehenge Watercolor Paper.
Prints available.
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. -- P. G. Wodehouse
India ink calligraphic drawing of a rooster surrounded by polygons and woodgrain rubber stamps with two rubber stamped chrysanthemum flowers above his head.
16 x 12 inches on 140 lb. hot press Stonehenge watercolor paper.
Prints Available
Blooming Rembrandt Tulip Zen Chicken on 12 x 16 inch 140 lb. Stonehenge Watercolor paper. In collection of Henry Tarin, August 2018 Prints Available
Splatter painted India ink form on wet paper with pointy tail feathers.
A fellow artist said it reminded her of mascara.
“Inner beauty is great, but a little mascara never hurts.” — Unknown author
Zen Chicken Word 2018
22 x 30" ink, rubber stamp, watercolor and acryl gouache on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper
Prints Available
"A rose is a rose is a rose." Gertrude Stein
This zen chicken with roses has many layers. India ink, gesso, rubber stamps, watercolor and acrylic paint on 12 x 16 140 lb. Stonehenge watercolor paper.
"My My Zen Chicken" is an india ink wash drawing with rubber stamps added. 7 x 5 inches on rag paper. For Sale Saatchi Art Portfolio
This is a wild attacking rooster coming at you. You better run or get your ankles pecked.
I was in a very good mood when I made this guy. He is active and crazed and fun to draw. I hope you feel the creative energy attacking you when you look at him.
"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing." -- Muhammad Ali
Mad Vermilion Zen Chicken in graphite, acrylic paint, and rubber stamp in archival ink. 16 x 16 inches on 140 lb. watercolor paper.
Chicken print with air plant. Vermilion comb added.
Diffused India ink wash with added rubber stamp arrows, eye, and tail. 16 x 16 inches on 140 lb. watercolor paper.
Zen Chicken 2018 with color ladder comb. Ink and acrylic gouache paint on 22 x 30 inch watercolor paper.
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
Zen Chicken as an Ikebana container 2018
12 x 16 " ink, rubber stamp, and acryl gouache on 140 lb hot press Stonehenge Watercolor paper
Prints Available
Zen Chicken as an Ikebana container 2018
12 x 16 " ink, rubber stamp, and acryl gouache on 140 lb hot press Stonehenge Watercolor paper
Zen Chicken takes an Ikebana Class 2018
12 x 16 " ink, rubber stamp, and acryl gouache on 140 lb hot press Stonehenge Watercolor paper
Rooster with human eye rubber stamp. Hommage to Man Ray's Unbreakable Object. 22x30 inches on 140 lb watercolor paper
Zen Chicken and the Color Ladder 2018
22" x 30" ink and watercolor paint on 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
Each Zen Chicken opens manifold layers of potential meaning and referential aesthetics..
Original drawing on 12x16 inch 140 lb hot pressed watercolor paper.
Love & Zen Chicken is composed of ink wash and rubber stamps. 12 x 16 inches on 140 lb. Stonehenge hot press watercolor paper.
Eye Eye Eye Aye Zen Chicken
12 x 16 inches on 140 lb. Stonehenge watercolor paper
Ink wash chicken body with hand carved rubber stamps of fashion croquis for a tail. 12 x 12 inches on cold press Fluid watercolor paper
Chandelier Zen Chicken composed of ink wash body and rubber stamps/ 12 x 12 inches on 140 lb cold press Fluid watercolor paper
Blue Roller Zen Chicken 16 x 16 inches on 140 lb cold press watercolor paper
India Ink drawing of a rooster with polygon shaped rubber stamping on his tail, beak, and feet. 7 x 5 inches. For Sale Saatchi Art Portfolio
"What! Zen Chicken" is an india ink wash drawing with rubber stamps added. 7 x 5 inches For Sale Saatchi Art Portfolio
Feibai “flying white” is an effect in brushstrokes when the drier tips of the brush begin to separate, causing the stroke to appear as a set of thin parallel lines. Ink and rubber stamping on 140 lb Fluid cold press watercolor paper. 12 x 12 inches
Poster for Zen Chicken Exhibition at Spellerberg Projects 2018
Grid of Zen Chickens installed in Spellerberg Projects Masur Building site January - March 2018
Nine 12 x 12 inch Zen Chicken drawings in Spellerberg Projects Masur Building exhibition January - March 2018