Pigs and goats like eating oats

Hi Everybody!

Today I have the second of the masculine tags I started some 

weeks back. The first one went off to a friend, but I don't yet know 

who will be getting this one. I started out with a 10" tag

which I gessoed, painted with gold & brown metallics,

and collaged with various scraps. I stenciled the numbers

and the diamonds with structure paste, and added more

collaged scraps in between when it was dry. I used lots of 

gilding flakes to give more colour. 'My' man was drawn with

charcoal. I sewed it onto 2 layers of recycled card.

I used a ball-chain and paper clip instead of ribbon

or twine for the hanger.

I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, masculine and to 

 Mixed media monthly, a year of choices - I chose # 32

For Sandra's Go tag Thursday I made a digital 

tag for her theme of fruit. Having recently seen the wonderful

Lucas Cranach exhibition here, I was inspired to use one of his works.

The quote is from Martin Luther, who was painted

frequently by Cranach. As there are animals on it, I am also 

linking it to our challenge at Tag Tuesday

and to Digitally made, where I made the Top 3 last month:

And last but not least, I made a hybrid piece for Rosie's

circles theme at Art Journal Journey.

I was just having fun making colourful circle doodles in

'my' head and using my own painted backgrounds:

The post title is the beginning of a little verse I learned as a child:

Pigs and goats like eating oats,

Goats and pigs like doing jigs.

Well, the ones I met in Neuss on Thursday weren't doing jigs,

but they looked happy and contented. 

This pig sat looking at me and grunted each time

I said something to him, too funny!

And here the second one:

The goats and rams were very funny to watch:

This one was very curious and liked being fed by G, which

gave me the opportunity to take the pics:

More photos to follow!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!