A rooster

The main element here is the illustration "A Cock" by Johan Teyler (1648-1709), isolated on a white background, courtesy of the Dutch Rijksmuseum. I added a number of framing vintage-style textures for greater depth. As to the breed, I suspect it's a predecessor of the Barbu d'Anvers, a bearded bantam breed. This is a companion piece to "A rooster 2" in this same collection of vintage poultry illustrations.

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Originally from Northern Germany, I have been living on a small farm in the West of Ireland for many years. I love to be creative, to create new things, be it arts and crafts or in image form. A few years ago I started to create digital works, based on my photographs or purely in Photoshop - the latter mostly as abstract works. Recently I have also started working with acrylic paints. I like to "play" with colours and digital effects.
My inspiration comes mainly from my immediate rural, rustic surroundings. So I often use distressed textures, plants, my farm animals, the sea, earth colours. When the often grey skies here get to me, I sometimes resort to brighter colours to compensate.
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ps. For Reasons: My digital art is made by me in a 2012 version of Photoshop (CS6), not by AI. My take on generative AI art is that it is soulless 'instant art', devoid of graft and craft. More importantly, in my mind it also constitutes mass copyright infringement, as billions of images available online (including my own) have been siphoned into the underlying databases from which the AI images are concocted without the creatives' knowledge and consent, or indeed any recompense.

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