Most recently, my Art Barn has reminded me more of an Animal Barn! When we first arrived, our son had 12 ewes, 2 withers and a ram. Our camper was set up within sight of his sheep barn and by late into the fall, the ewes began having their babies. The first was born on my birthday and was dubbed "Early Girl" because it was the earliest that this particular herd had ever had a first-born lamb.
Since then, a total of 17 lambs have been born. Most of them were single births and likewise most of them were females. There have been lots of opportunities to photograph them along with their mothers. I have been able to take the time to create watercolor versions of them basing what I have done on tutorials by other, more accomplished water color artists. Nuturally the first one is not as good as I would have liked:
Oh there are all sorts of reasons (it wasn't loose enough; the proportions were off and so on) but it was part of a learniing process. The next ones were a bit better:
Each of these was created more loosly with less attention to trying to make the resultiing images exact. However, the tutorials I followed were of fleece sheep and our breeds are either full meat sheep (yes, there is a difference although fleece sheep are used for meat especially if the offspring is a male) or crosses between fleece breeds and meat varities. So I must keep trying and see what I can come up with over the next attempts.
Meanwhile, it is looking like our house is about ready to be moved into, so watercolor, tatting and blogging may have to wait until I get that process finished. Hopefully that won't take too long, but I know it will be a process. Catch up with you soor!
