Here is my entry for this year's Trekell Pet Portrait Competition. This competition requires artists to use a special shaped birch panel as the support. This time I painted eight of my chickens, some who are still alive and some who have passed, all gathered in a circle with the sun behind them. Although it was not my original intention, it looks as though it is from the point of view of a bug on the ground. So I've titled this painting "You Are The Bug." One of these special hens I have painted several times before - can you spot her?
