Greetings fellow bovine appreciators! It's been a while since I posted anything on here so I thought it was time to put on the winter woollies and come out of hiding. Rest assured I have been beavering away producing paintings in between the agricultural shows of the summer and of course my visits to restaurants. Kirsty Allsopp probably thinks I was stalking her as she was at many of the same shows, talk about Location, Location! I didn't realise she was entering the competitions as a mystery entrant for her own show until I watched in this autumn. I can tell you, that in the words my mother might use that she's not as "hefty" in real life!
The Royal Welsh Show was excellent and being a member this year was an advantage. No longer did I have to rely on the plastic cupped generosity of the Welsh Black breed society for a post cow tipple but I could enter the hallowed portals of the newly finished member's pavilion. I could sip a chilled glass of Prosecco (sans damp grassy knoll bum print) and watch proceedings from the balcony. I would have preferred a view over the cattle ring but hey, you can't have everything. The toilets were much better too and no longer did I feel that I was using an outside privvy!
In addition I've painted a few donkeys and also some spaniels, photographed on a detour to to the Royal Welsh as a commission which has kept me busy. Douglas and Shadow were lovely and very well behaved models as usually with two of them it's like herding cats.
Talking of commissions I've just finished another one which is of two Belgian Blues. It's just drying now and the next blog which follows next shows some step by step photos.
