Design Competition: Cows On A Roll

This is my entry for the Brabantia "Pimp our print"-competition in their search for a new design for their bin/canister range. I noticed the competition just a few days before the closing date for entering (today) and quickly thought up a theme around one of my cow-sketches combined with the aspect of rotation/rolling of the cylindrical form of a bin/cannister, including the suggestion of a film roll.

www.brabantia.com/design/competition_entries/cows-on-a-roll/

Continuous Cow

Quick sketch practising countour/continuous line drawing, not minding too much about anatomical correctness. Snelle contour/continue lijn schets.

Cows in a Sunlit Pasture

I recently spent a whole day walking in the farmland surroundings of the small village of Teuven in Belgium. Back at home I started on some sketches of farmland scenes that I had come across and had tried to memorize, like this one of cows grazing in a beautifully sunlit pasture. Wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm).

Spring: Bovine Ballet

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First smell of fresh green
Dancers so keen
An early spring day
The stage for a bovine ballet

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I like cows and enjoy seeing them roaming in the pastures near to where I live. Although the local farmers haven't let their cows out of their winter lodgings yet, with spring just around the corner it certainly will not take long before they do. Elsewhere some farmers have already done so and a photo in the local newspaper showed a very happy cow getting its first smell of fresh grass. I used it for a quick and loose sketch. Wax pastel on paper. Lente: Dansende koe. Snelle schets gebaseerd op een foto in de krant van een uitgelaten koe die van opwinding vreugdesprongen maakt als ze voor het eerst weer vers gras ruikt. Neocolor II waspastels.