Eggs!

"Four eggs on a china plate" 

oil on panel, 8 x 6 inch.

  

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." 

- Samuel Butler. 

We live in the Brisbane suburbs (Australia) and three chooks have the run of our back yard.  Two ISA browns and one leghorn which give us the brown and white eggs respectively.  The eggs from the two ISA browns have slightly different hue.  One of our daily pleasures is collecting these beautiful eggs and then eating them.  Boiled, poached, fried, scrambled, an omelet, or as an ingredient elsewhere, I can't imagine life without the daily donations made by our chooks.  While we do get tired of eggs from time to time, it's never for very long.

On a technical note, I use Art Spectrum oil paints and prior to painting I squeeze out the paint onto paper towel and let some of the oil get drawn from the paint for an hour or two.  I do it the evening before if I remember.  This gives the oil paint a thicker, pasty consistency which I find better for building up paint on paint. 

On my palette: Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Spectrum Yellow, Spectrum Red, Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Spectrum Blue, Phthalo Green.  In addition, I pre-mix an orange (from Spectrum Yellow and Red), purple (from Spectrum Red and Blue), and a green (from Spectrum Yellow and Blue).