All About Sheep

I’m very fond of sheep.  Maybe because I grew up in Wales, UK.

I used to visit them in their fields when I was a child and spend far too much time "baaaing" and "bleating" at them. 

Sometimes they came quite close to stare at me.  I particularly liked watching them chew.  I still do.   Sheep and cows are thoughtful chewers.  

 Grassmere, Lake District, UK.  February 2016 

 

This very large ram 

was on the gatepost of a farm in the Lake District

What a stare!

 These sweet faces are in the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming.

This sheep in a cable sweater is on a wall in Rochester, NY. They call it "wall therapy."  Her sweater looks like one of the famous Aran sweaters from Ireland.


Where possible I will always give the name of the artist or at least the location.  If I have not named the artist or have incorrectly located the artwork please let me know and I will correct it.   I only post my own photographs of things I have seen myself.  

These lovely paintings of mountain sheep are by Charles Rungius (Germany 1869-1959) are in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, WY.

Just look at the brushwork and the angle of the light.  I particularly like the one sheep peeking over the bottom of the picture.   

And this artist has captured a sheep's determined plodding down the mountainside. 

 National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY www.wildlifeart.org

And then there is this sheep that likes to shop in the local grocery store.  Isle of Coll, Scotland.

Copyright Jennifer Gold 2016