Wednesday, May 24, 2017

May

It's time for the next installment for the Sarah Coleridge's poem THE MONTHS. This is being hosted by The Craft Barn Blog.

The verse this month is:


May brings flocks of pretty lambs
Skipping by their fleecy dams

Surprising, there is no constraints this time. So we can interpret this anyway we wish.


For 13 years I worked for a company that owned historical sites and I worked in a few of them. One of them in the spring taught visitors all the processes of taking a fleece and making it into a shawl back in the 18th century. And yes, I can demonstrate all of it except for the shearing.

This line reminded me of that so I drew sheep being very happy after they were sheared. They really do skip a bit.  They hate being sheared but love how better they feel once they get it cut. Thus you see the sheep shear and some of the fleece.
As usual I had no stamps or dies suitable for this so I drew all of this.
I used an old set of Spectracolor pencils that belonged to my late father-in-law. My printer also refuses to print black ink so I wrote the verse myself.

I actually found this more challenging without any constraints!
Until next time....