The Funky Chicken Art Project: Paintings

Tiffany Ard's art is about birds. Her medium is silk screened acrylic with a space between the silk screened image and the hand painted background. The success is evident in the shadowing effect that gives the picture depth and a sence of reality.

Rand Carlson paints with tin collage. Granted, it's not a typical medium to call "paint", but it would be where a painting would hang, so I put his work here. The colors, and ideas are unique, and I have never seen anything like them.

Virginia Dauth considers herself an "expressive colorist" exploring the medium of chalk pastels. Her landscapes are detailed vistas with such color that you feel drawn into as if they are an entrance to another world and you can't quite see what is over the next hill, or beyond the trees. She brought new paintings in February 14th, 2002. I'll put new images on her page as soon as I can. Come see them, they are wonderful!

Paul Karnowski paints in acrylics on canvas with both subtle and obvious messages delivered in the series we currently have in the gallery. Saints are his subject, in the series of three, and the images portray a very modern outlook on our society and how these saints may be applied. I have included the artist's words about each painting on his page. I hope you enjoy them.

Tina Kirk paints in acrylics on textured wood. Her style is somber and gentle, and the ladies who are her subjects work their way into the hearts of collectors instantly.

Ronnie Pettit has joined the Funky Chicken Art Project as an artist in residence in June, 2008. His studio adds the new medium of reverse painting on glass windows to the collection. Watching him work gives a well deserved appreciation of the results he achieves. With a background in art and art education, his work has a playfullness in a graphic style of very likeable themes. His sunflowers are suns in themselves, his fish look moody and mysterious, and his martini glasses attract a very different appreciation.

Lori Schmitt is a self-taught, disabled painter, who cannot use her hands. An inspiration as well as a talented visionary, she shares her positive outlook and pleasing scenes through her paintings on watercolor paper. The scenes themselves are delightful, with bright colors and excellent composition, but the fact that she paints them with the brush held in her mouth shows a determination of character as well. I have several in my own collection at home. Visit her website.

Jay Schmetz , from Savannah, Georgia, is a new addition to our gallery introducing a casual pet series. "Reclining nude" is my favorite, and he does know his subjects well, as he is involved with Pot-bellied pig rescue and lives with 20 of them.

Deborah Tidwell has a very textured canvas built up with modeling paste under her very pleasing scenes in oil paint. New into the gallery March, 2001, we are excited about this fresh and dramatic style in our collection.

Tom Touchstone paints in a style solely his own. He has chosen to paint on "window screens" instead of canvas or wood. He simply "likes the texture" of this unusual painting surface. The subject matter is also uncommon....from "Zadona", an alien with child, to "Hanzel & Gretta", a cow and a mule in the traditional "American Gothic" pose. The surface is built up with caulking before he paints them, and they withstand the elements rather nicely. He is also featured on our pottery page with his primitive pottery

Karen M. Williams has this colorful style with big brush strokes that make her paintings look easy and unhurried. The colors are highlighted with complimentary contrasts and they vibrate with a slow motion. She is new in the gallery for May, 2000. We are looking forward to seeing many more.