This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Strings"... here's my take on the topic, Grand Ole Opry style!
"Get along little doggies...."
"Don't fence me in...."
"On the road again...."
...what's he singing to you?
EDITED TO ADD:
I just *had* had to make a more "fem" hen. I give you Patsy. Notice the sparkles from her rhinestone-embellished guitar! (Don't you think she kind of resembles Jewel?) *grin*
Maaa-maaaas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys! Don't let them pick gi-tars and drive them ol' trucks, make them be doctors and lawyers and such.
Gawd, now I'll have Willie in my head for a week!
Posted by: kathynruss | October 20, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Very sweet birds! He's singing "Whole Lotta Peckin' Goin' On" and she's definitely singing "Crazy" - or is that "Cause You Ain't Chicken Enough to Take My Rooster" LOL! Love 'em!
Posted by: Lorraine M. | October 16, 2008 at 05:35 PM
Fantastic job! What talent!
Posted by: thedoodlegirl | October 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM
both of them are so lovely! also like these beautiful colours.
Posted by: krisztina maros | October 13, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Ohhhhh I LOVE this! Wonderful style, so bold, cute and fun! :o)
Posted by: alicia Padrón | October 13, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Teehee!! These are cracking me up!! Songs?! ummm..don't know!? Elvis songs?
Posted by: Vicki | October 13, 2008 at 07:19 AM
They really made me smile too. Hope they will be available as stamps :) Great work again!
Posted by: Monica Löfstedt | October 13, 2008 at 03:20 AM
Love them both! Oh, my gosh, Anna--you're so talented!
Posted by: Leslie Miller | October 12, 2008 at 07:56 PM
What great chickens! Really, really fun illustrations! Thanks for making me smile!
Posted by: Michelle Henninger | October 12, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Bwahahahahaha...."get along little doggies.." You crack me up. Love Patsy's shine! :)
Posted by: shel9999 | October 12, 2008 at 02:30 PM
LOL! Anna, your creations ALWAYS bring a smile to my face!!
Posted by: hb.carol | October 12, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Well, he is singing 'Living La Vida Loca' to me and she is either yodeling or singing 'Blue' (think Leanne Rimes). haha. I love these illustrations!
Posted by: Novell | October 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
heee heee!!!! your chickens! they go SO well with my morning coffee! i've got this idiot grin on my face...
rhinestones...on a chicken....
Posted by: froggie | October 12, 2008 at 07:49 AM
Don't ask me why but Strings reminded me of Festus and Patsy reminded me of Miss Kitty from "Gunsmoke". Makes me chomp at the bit for my husband's retirement so we can get to our East Texas ranch. Can't wait to get chickens, goats, cows, horses and even a pot bellied pig or two.
Posted by: Judith Cobb | October 11, 2008 at 07:59 PM
Both are fabulous!! You totally crack me up! Love all the bling :)
I could have sworn I heard them singing,
By the light of the moon,
Where is that raccoon,
Cuz, we're tired of being in lock down!!
Posted by: Dotty | October 11, 2008 at 06:26 PM
How cute! You and your chickens!! What else will you have them doing? Can't wait to see!
Posted by: Viv (VivLyn) | October 11, 2008 at 05:53 PM
Actually, Minnie Pearl comes to mind, too!
Posted by: Janet S | October 11, 2008 at 04:45 PM
I don't know why, but I think of "Yankee Doodle" when looking at this chicken. LOL
Posted by: Janet S | October 11, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Lovely chick.
Posted by: Jeroen | October 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Oh My Gosh Anna! Too cute!
Posted by: SusanH | October 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM
These are such cute chickens. I agree with the above post. You need to make stamps out of them. I would name the male "Elvis".
Posted by: Linda Palmer | October 11, 2008 at 08:56 AM
:D.. love it!!
Great work ^^
Posted by: Kris-Tea | October 11, 2008 at 08:05 AM
they are way cute!!!
Posted by: Diane Duda | October 11, 2008 at 07:57 AM
great and funny draw!!!!
Posted by: Vincenzo | October 11, 2008 at 07:04 AM
Oh my gosh! They are both adorable. I do love the more fem girl and the bling!
Posted by: Kittie Caracciolo | October 11, 2008 at 06:46 AM
love them. i love the little twinkles on her guitar and microphone. i think she is tammy wynette singing, stand by your man.
Posted by: veronica | October 11, 2008 at 06:20 AM
You crack me up. Love the chickens this morning. And yes, I can see the first one singing Mitch Millers's Don't Fence Me In, I loved that song as a kid.
Posted by: Sally | October 11, 2008 at 06:20 AM
Anna,
Please take all your chickens and make a stamp collection out of them - I would love to buy them!!!
They are soooo cute
Gail
Posted by: Gail | October 11, 2008 at 06:08 AM
Very cute! She kinda looks like my Rockstar chick!
Posted by: Michelle | October 11, 2008 at 05:30 AM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . I absolutely LOVE Patsy! You are the absolute best!!!! You know, you really DO need to make a Minnie Pearl version. I can see that hat with the price tag now ---- HOWDY!
Posted by: Sherry Cheever | October 11, 2008 at 05:16 AM
How cute! It reminds me of last night at the football game. During halftime the marching band did a whole show about birds, ending with the Chicken Dance. They started out with Free Bird, with the color guard "hatching" on the field. It was crazy.
I always LOVE your illustrations! This is no exception.
Have a great weekend!
Posted by: Toni K | October 11, 2008 at 04:39 AM
these birds are a singing that old favorite "Oh the cow kicked Nellie in the belly in the barn.....These are both adorable.. thanks for sharing...MaryAnn
Posted by: maryann grove | October 11, 2008 at 12:40 AM
How cute and funny!!! and I think they would both fit right in at the Opry! I can just hear them singing, too.....oh, all she needs is a Minnie Pearl Hat (or am I dating myself...)
; )
Posted by: Lauri | October 11, 2008 at 12:27 AM
BWAHAHAHAHA, YOU ARE CRACKING ME UP AGAIN! :D
Your illustrations are fabulous, I like the male AND the female! They are too cute...and I've BEEN to the Grand Ole Opry, but it was over 25 years ago! I remember, because I was very pregnant with our 3rd son!!!
Have a great weekend...and greetings to all the chickens and turkens from NE!!! =)
Posted by: diane mcvey | October 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM
snicker, snicker....
Posted by: sherri | October 10, 2008 at 11:25 PM
A one man/chicken version of Free Bird?
...But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change...."
whoops...unless someone whips out their watercolors and instant sex change...
Posted by: Sharon in NE | October 10, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Anna, I think you've been sniffing too many fumes from the chicken poop ... coop, well you know what I mean ! ha
How much cuter can you draw a chicken ~ but when you're in the mood to create again, maybe you might add a bit of *bling* to her feathered fingers and toes (toe ring perhaps or an anklet?) and maybe a hair barette or patterened scraf to hold that flowing, silky hair-feathers out of her eyes! haa!
OHHHHH NOOOO, I must be smelling some of that poop too, as I'm starting to invision chickens like you do :))))
Can't wait 'til Monday for all of your releases on WS :)
Posted by: Robb_eeie | October 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Well now, how stinkin cute are they?!?
Awesome job as usual Anna!
Thanks for sharing.
I think she might be singing "Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm beggin' of you please don't take my man...." I think she resembles Dolly just a tad :-)
Posted by: Darlene Pinder | October 10, 2008 at 09:45 PM
Oh, this is great... It's kinda funny, for a second I thought the guitar looked like a drumstick! Wonderful!
Posted by: Edrian Thomidis | October 10, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Love me tender was my first thought, but I see someone else had the same twisted thought! So now my thoughts are "Walkin' After Midnight" or "Crazy".
Posted by: Sherry Cheever | October 10, 2008 at 07:34 PM
Love me Tender???? Ya know, Chicken Tender...maybe not....
Posted by: Kathyc on SCS | October 10, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Other than the chicken dance, I don't know any appropriate songs but this so reminds me of DH who leads our praise team at church each week on his guitar. Love it!
Posted by: Tracy Harp | October 10, 2008 at 07:09 PM
love it! love the texture. great work!
Posted by: reg | October 10, 2008 at 06:56 PM
This is very cute. I like the electric cord.
Posted by: Ces | October 10, 2008 at 06:23 PM
Yep, I think I saw him on "Hee Haw" singing "A Boy named Sue." I'm pretty sure I saw him.
Your work is delightful.
Posted by: Roberta Baird | October 10, 2008 at 05:27 PM
"Who broke the lock?" (traditional song)
Who broke the lock? I don't know
Who broke the lock on the henhouse door
Well, I'll find out before I go
Who broke the lock on the henhouse door
Now, my old hen's a good old hen
But she ain't laid a egg since I don't know when
Old hen cackle, cackling a lot
Next time she cackle, gonna cackle in the pot
Who broke the lock? I don't know
Who broke the lock on the henhouse door
Well, I'll find out before I go
Who broke the lock on the henhouse door
Now, there was an old rooster 'bout forty years old
He'd done lots of things that'd never been told
His toes curled up, he could not scratch
But the young hens say his eggs still hatch
***
Oh there are a ton of verses to this silly, sassy song but how many do you expect this old hen to remember, lol.
Posted by: Martha | October 10, 2008 at 05:25 PM