Rooster with a palette knife (Reserved for Jessie)

I love love love the way paintings look when they use a palette knife, but I don't love how my wrist hurts after.  I must be a moron, because I can't figure out how to paint with a palette knife without wrist pain later.

Here is a rooster that I've wanted to do for a while.  It's based on a youtube video by Ginger Cook.  (She has great tutorials. I swear, you could be a terrible artist and still make something beautiful with her help.)

The face is still unfinished in the middle one.  Later, I finally took time to finish.  Christmas came upon me and all art projects ceased for a while there.

Here is the final (with some color studies, which have really helped my cloud development.)