My Red Hen Tank Top

A small painting of my red hen in my orange grove in Andalucia, Spain. Despite its size a lot of work went into this painting because I used egg tempera paints on a wood board primed with universal gesso, a method of painting used by the first renaissance artists before the discovery of oil paints. I found this a slow process because, unlike watercolours, the paint has to be applied in layers. I sprayed the finished painting with a special fixative varnish.