Recently I’ve been painting a lot of chickens. This is in part due to a friend in our Church who’s family has their own chickens. What I did not know until their inspiration, was how many unique breeds of chickens there are. I learned something new, and what we view as common sparked inspiration. Often as artists we look for something to draw, and we can overlook so many great subjects trying to find something unusual. We can find the unique, and interesting in what is all around us. That is not to say we can’t also be inspired by great architecture etc, but it should remind us not to…