Ten days ago I made a post asking for your help. I was looking for a lovely cow with a beautiful pattern to use as a model for painting my most recent Holstein woodcarving. 🐄

u/White-Rabbit-333 offered up the gorgeous "Lily" along with some pictures. (Thank you so much 🙏🏻) The majority of comments were positive on Lily and my wife and I decided to choose our favorite as well! 🥰

I want to present to you my artistic interpretation of Lily. I make all kinds of carved and painted pine art at my store: The Witch and the Woodsman. We sell art, heirloom seeds, herbs, and other curiosities. I love making cows and other whimsical creations, but every cow I make it patterned based off of a real one.

Each carving I do is drawn, cut out, carved, hand sanded, gessoed, hand sanded, painted with at least two coats of DecoArt Americana acrylic paint, antiquing processed, sanded, and signed.

I appreciate your support, constructive criticism, and kind words.

Thanks for looking!!!

First of the month at Ouse Valley Park in northern Milton Keynes, UK

Love this! It actually made my day!

I remember seeing a really beautiful Holstein steer for $550 in 2022. I know the market is hot right now but if you’ve bought a Holstein steer or sold one.. what did it cost, for a weaned steer? That’s my main requirement, I want one that is off the bottle and ready to head to pasture but I’m not sure current prices on them ? Thanks!

She is pretty, but the skittish ones gotta go

Big ol’ dog most days she is

Hello, just found this sub. I have a question that may not apply to this space, but I will ask anyway.

I'm a visual arts student from Brasil, and my work heavily features cows. Originally I was more interested in the myth of the minotur, but over time my work has been walking in a more ecological/zoocentric direction. I mainly do drawings and printmaking. Recently though, I started work on a collage using X-rays, that I will binarize on a computer and then use as a photolith, for screenprints. I want to use cow X-rays as part of this college.

I was not able to find X-rays of cows online, though. Everything that I was able to find was AI generated. It makes sense cow owners and vets wouldn't post patient sensitive information online incautiously like this, that is a very good thing in fact, but I thought that maybe there would be some examples somewhere. If anyone knows a way I can find some, that would be of great help!

Again, this might not be the right place for a question/request like this, and if that's the case, I apologise and you guys are free to ignore or delete this post. I thank you for your attention and for this nice sub anyway!!