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Creative cow

We had a creative Sunday recycling old magazines and making new artworks, including this textured highland cow.

I really enjoyed trying something new and having to think slightly differently as I sourced the colours from all the photos in a few magazines. We sat around pritt sticking our scraps in quiet concentration, great fun and I love the texture and colours I achieved on this illustration.

The trouble is though that now I quite like it then I think maybe I should do six Scottish animals and make a range of gift cards! Maybe a squirrel, a stag – what else?!

Mooo! Hamish, the world famous Highland cow says hello to the Ness Bus tour

Hamish_NB_colourI recently boarded the Ness Bus tour from Edinburgh to Loch Ness and we made a pitstop near Callander to visit Scotland’s most famous Hairy Coo

 

If travelling up into Central Scotland you must visit Hamish, he is a Scottish institution and although he’s getting on a bit now, he still has all the majesty and beauty which made him so famous. Indeed, if you are looking at a postcard of a Highland Cow on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, chances are that cow is Hamish. He even has his own facebook page!

 

Visit him, and buy some food for him from the shop, at the Trossachs Wollen Mill in Kilmahog, just outside Callander.