Marion Boddy-Evans

How Not to Take Reference Photos of Sheep

In Mad Cat Art Studio, Photography, Sheep on 21 February 2012 at 15:10

Driving to the Skye Quilters meeting yesterday, I spotted a gorgeous black black in a field near Kensaleyre. Thinking it’d make a great reference for a future sheep painting, I stopped to take a photo on my way home. But it was having other ideas, as sheep so often do…

Black sheep reference photo

Oh well, maybe some photos of a white sheep then. Or maybe not…
White sheep reference photo

I did, ultimately, get a shot.
Black sheep reference photo

  1. Isn’t that the way it always is? they are perfect subject until the camera comes out!

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