13 Cows

One more day of daily life drawing class. The goal of the class was to make live drawing a habit for at least 30 minutes a day. We learned sort of the usual things--value, negative spaces, contour, gesture, angles/plumb lines--and applied them to some kind of live drawing every day. In desperation if there was no human or animal around, we could draw a fruit or vegetable or a plant. No photographs were allowed so that we would develop our eye of transferring 3D (what we saw) to 2D (our paper, board, canvas) and really see contour, shape, and value as interpreted through our eyes and brains to our hands instead of through a lens. The class was $129 and I was given more than enough feedback and the online instruction via videos and handouts and weekly webinars was very very very very in-depth.

The above drawing was at the FFA judging event. I met Kathy W there and we were soon chased out, "no parents or chaperones allowed in here during judging" on our way out, we hailed the man who chased us out and said we weren't parents, we didn't know anyone or animal there, and that we were there to draw cows. We showed our supplies and the guy believed us and let us back in and alerted the other judging officials that we weren't spies but artists from a class. We did not take any photos.

Can you find all 13 cows?