Popeye the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)
A little while back, I was visiting my second home in New Zealand. On this trip, I met a fourth-, maybe fifth-generation cheesemaker (or in French: fromager). She was kind enough to invite us to her lovely home along the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, where we got the incredible opportunity to meet her goats (pictures below). On this day, I went from simply liking goats to loving them. To me, baby goats represent all the playfulness from childhood that people tend to abandon as they get older. I want people to look at this little goat and remember that growing up doesn’t mean we can’t still jump around, play, and just have fun. Please, keep some of that childlike wonder.
This little one was born in May 2021 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and highlights were added using acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 or 8x8 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are goats so awesome? “Goats have rectangular pupils. This unusual shape, shared by sheep and several other ungulates, gives them a fuller range of vision than humans and other animals with round pupils. Goats can see 320 to 340 degrees in their periphery—everything except for what’s directly behind them—which is useful in avoiding predators. The drawback to the flattened pupil is that goats are unable to look up or down without moving their heads.” Oh yeah, and they also have four stomachs. - Learn more epic goat facts here.
A little while back, I was visiting my second home in New Zealand. On this trip, I met a fourth-, maybe fifth-generation cheesemaker (or in French: fromager). She was kind enough to invite us to her lovely home along the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, where we got the incredible opportunity to meet her goats (pictures below). On this day, I went from simply liking goats to loving them. To me, baby goats represent all the playfulness from childhood that people tend to abandon as they get older. I want people to look at this little goat and remember that growing up doesn’t mean we can’t still jump around, play, and just have fun. Please, keep some of that childlike wonder.
This little one was born in May 2021 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and highlights were added using acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 or 8x8 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are goats so awesome? “Goats have rectangular pupils. This unusual shape, shared by sheep and several other ungulates, gives them a fuller range of vision than humans and other animals with round pupils. Goats can see 320 to 340 degrees in their periphery—everything except for what’s directly behind them—which is useful in avoiding predators. The drawback to the flattened pupil is that goats are unable to look up or down without moving their heads.” Oh yeah, and they also have four stomachs. - Learn more epic goat facts here.
A little while back, I was visiting my second home in New Zealand. On this trip, I met a fourth-, maybe fifth-generation cheesemaker (or in French: fromager). She was kind enough to invite us to her lovely home along the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, where we got the incredible opportunity to meet her goats (pictures below). On this day, I went from simply liking goats to loving them. To me, baby goats represent all the playfulness from childhood that people tend to abandon as they get older. I want people to look at this little goat and remember that growing up doesn’t mean we can’t still jump around, play, and just have fun. Please, keep some of that childlike wonder.
This little one was born in May 2021 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and highlights were added using acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 or 8x8 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are goats so awesome? “Goats have rectangular pupils. This unusual shape, shared by sheep and several other ungulates, gives them a fuller range of vision than humans and other animals with round pupils. Goats can see 320 to 340 degrees in their periphery—everything except for what’s directly behind them—which is useful in avoiding predators. The drawback to the flattened pupil is that goats are unable to look up or down without moving their heads.” Oh yeah, and they also have four stomachs. - Learn more epic goat facts here.
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Here are the actual photos of the New Zealand cheesemaker goats mentioned above.
