Art van Leeuwen | The Peacock Rooster - Oils and palette knife on prepared paper

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Cock Sure Peacock Rooster

This began with three sweeping strokes. One Yellow. One Red. One Blue.

A self portrait?

Then I stood back and looked at those three broad strokes with a palette knife. I stared and stared. At the positive space. At the negative space. I started to see feathers. I started to see a bird. With growing confidence each stroke became stronger. Quicker. More impulsive. I attacked in a flurry. Very little thinking. No real decision making. In less than an hour it was over. Confidence is the willingness to let go. Confidence is believing that if you are honest, you will at least be interesting. Funny how being confident produced this. Does talking about your confidence make you cocky? Pretty Cock Sure this one just may have.

Oil on Paper

26.5 x 40 inches

$ 740 CAD