Lizards in the Piggery!

One of our resident lizards climbed up on to the table by itself... and decided to spend some time getting close to the pottery!

new work

Sansnee was happy with the portrait I painted of her in the Studio

and I have started a new painting

sketch

my first plein air sketch for a couple of years today... a view of the 'The Piggery'

a new sign

we now have a new sign outside the piggery

Bert's Portrait

Bert Moriarty called round to the Piggery today and I was able to do a bit more to his portrait

A New Portrait

So far I have only painted one portrait in the 'Piggery' but Bert Moriarty came round  today and I was able to start a 24 x 18 oil Portrait of him in about 100 minutes... hopefully he will be able to come  round again next week so that I can do more to  it!

Running of the Bulls

There was a bit of excitement today when 50 bulls were moved down the road past the piggery. They started off orderly and then as you can see by the photos, jammed up at the toilet block as though waiting for instructions. The Alpaca guarding the sheep was on high alert and there was a lot of bleating and mooing. Then the bulls headed off towards the piggery, but there was a bit of confusion when a few stopped to drink from the puddle of water at the Earth Care driveway. After a bit of coaxing they were on their way again, and they got a bit of a run up and started trotting fast down hill, as you can see from the speed blur. I stood by my post at the piggery door throughout the whole ordeal to avoid a bull in a china (pottery!) shop - speaking of which we sold two pieces of pottery today and a painting from the gallery last week!