art spam, with chickens

[astridv]

This is the cathedral in the center of my home town. The chickens were actually there the year I painted this - they had escaped from the farmers market and were roaming free on the marketplace in front of the cathedral all summer. At night they slept in the trees. The people who were supposed to catch them didn't try very hard. They put up a few cages for show, and then they'd place the bait in front of the cages to make sure the chickens wouldn't go in by accident. The painting itself took insanely long and convinced me that the style of photorealism needs to be avoided at all cost.