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Satisfying watercolor chickens come to life in Myroslava Boikiv’s playful painting process

Popkin
May 27, 2026
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Watching Myroslava Boikiv paint chickens is like a magic trick in watercolor. She drops a blob of pigment on wet paper and lets it puddle wherever it wants. Once the shape settles, she adds a beak, a comb, two stick-thin legs — and the random blot is suddenly a hen.

She does it again with a different blob and gets a different…

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