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




