Reindeer calves by gunsan
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Reindeer calves with their mothers "vajor"
The Samis gather mothers and calves to give the calves the owner's special mark in the ears.
The calves follow their mothers, and are caught with a lasso.
With his knife the owner cut his combination of marks in the ears of the calves (ouch!).
It doesn't hurt so much, they say, but for the viewer is seems rather filled with panic.
I guess it depends mostly on that they are chased.
Painted from a photo.
Thanks for viewing and comments!
Comments (20)
Lovely post Gun, it captures movement. Thanks for the info too :-)
Wonderful painting Gun. I love how the herd disappears into the mist. You are collecting such a wonderful pictoral story of Laplander life. I always think when humans say it doesn't hurt animals to do their branding on them, what human has been branded so they can say that for sure it doesn't hurt the animal? ;)
A wonderful sense of herd and movement. Excellent shade and light. Beautifully captured and painted..and a very interesting story.
Beautiful design
this is gorgeous painting gun~
Fabulous painting as Your usual,dear Gun!!!!bravo!V:DDD.Hugs Whylma.
Beautiful work and image. Accolades!!!!!
Excellent anatomy on the animals. Your portrayal of the flurry of their movement is fantastic. Beautiful artwork.
Beautifully presented text and image. :-)
A splendid photo painting. Thank you for this enlightening series.
Beautiful painting again Gun, love the colors!
I love how you have done the postwork. It matches very nicly the earlier version.
Very nice painting image! Great colors! Very well done!!
amazing image and impression! fantastic expression of movement and natural life! ;o)
What a magical image! it is very "Dream-like", and there is a comforting feel to it, like warm safety in the herd...fabulous!!
terrific mini series... well done
Very magical. Beautiful piece.
Same formidable deepth as in your first Reindeer posting and the same love to detail. It is a pleasure to look at and all the informations about the samis are very very interesting. Thanks Gun!
that's how we mark our cattle here.. wonderfully done gun in the painting ;]
Beautifully done!!