Paintings for Children's Rooms

This one came about from a staff-room doodle. Originally the small dino was a little boy. The chicken looks so innocent. Thankfully these dinosaurs are vegetarians.

A birthday card on the same theme

 
Another dino painting with the same characters. I painted all of these paintings while pregnant. Someone has suggested that the string is symbolic - umbilical cord? Apron strings?

A Michael Leunig poem I took a fancy to. 

Rock Paintings

Ok, back to chooks and dogs! Papier Mache dog bone (still drying) props up rock dog.

Chicken girl painting

One of my wee chooks died last weekend
:o(

She was very cute and friendly and I'll miss her but painting her helped me feel a little better.

Omelette and Pikelette

My first doll!
I was given one of Susanna Oroyan's books for my birthday
- it was so inspirational and something clicked.
I realised I could bring together many of the skills I've learnt,
some of which I had up to now considered merely tangents.

Omelette and Pikelette began life as a pair of wire
crochet circles. The circles sprouted claws and then
proceeded to grow into chicken legs.
It was then obvious that what was needed
was a chicken... or two...