On our recent Pollan Painting weekend, my five-year-old son Frederick and I read with interest about the slaughter technique used at Joel Salatin’s natural poultry operation. Frederick has some personal knowledge of poultry slaughter but was curious about commercial slaughter operations. A Google image search of “chicken slaughter” inspired him to paint this:
[See his first Pollan-inspired painting, Children of the corn]
- A valid email address is required to discourage spam; we will not use or sell it. Before clicking Submit, please type the two words in the red box, separated by a space.
[Running on WordPress.]
Subscribe to all posts
Food, Farming, & Food Politics events calendar Subscribe to events feed
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons license. No part of this site may be reproduced for commercial purposes without express permission from the authors.
Humor: Rants: First person: Wonky: How-tos: In the field: Reviews: Most inexplicably trafficked:
42 queries. 0.465 seconds
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Tell Frederick he does great work - his rendering of the chicken shows real talent — it seems like a simple painting but the use of color and transparency and the composition demonstrate genuine artistic sensibility.
Plus, it’s funny.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Wow - that kid has serious talent! I don’t think my painting of a chicken would be any better and I’ve got 20 years on Frederick! :)
February 5th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Leah,
That’s pretty much what I said. I tried to paint a chicken and the proportions are all off. There is also something just inherently more cute about child art.
Amanda
February 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Hi Bart. I don’t know how I missed your comment. He likes pink which is why he chose the pink construction paper. He chose white because the chickens in the inspiration picture were white:
http://tinyurl.com/2fmzd5
In a future “Pollan painting,” he chose pink for a wild boar even though I directed him toward the grey tones. All pigs are pinks after all and, more importantly, pink is Frederick’s favorite color.
It was great to meet you.