Meet Pigcasso! The worlds only pig painter who is earning thousands of dorlars.
Alas a pig named piccasso has emerged the painter of the year
After having been rescued by a lady named Joan Leflon.
This is Pigcasso. She was rescued from the slaughter house and is now living her best life with friends of CapeTown. Rescued..? Poke eaters did ya'all hear this.
And she’s become an artist. The famous pigccasso making a $1,000 painting.
Pigcasso, a 450lb pig, is apparently rarely seen without a paintbrush in her mouth and spends the majority of her time at her easel in the fields of Cape Coast. Huh....
She was originally bred to be slaughtered at a pig farm but was rescued at four weeks old by her now owner, Joanne Lefson, who was upset by the squalid conditions she was kept in.
Pigs on today’s industrialised factory farms are kept in merciless conditions deliberately hidden from public view,’ says Joanne.
‘If consumers could see inside, they would think twice about bringing home the bacon.
‘Breeding sows are confined in narrow cages for life, while their offspring are raised for pork and kept in filthy, overcrowded conditions…with no straw, no access to the outdoors and no quality of life. Wow
She says that she wanted to help and so went to the factory farm where she asked if she could buy one of their piglets.
‘I’d have brought them all home if I could,’ she says.
Pigcasso was rescued in May this year – having been due for slaughter in September. Rescued poke lol.....
Bizarrely, Joanne says that she tried to entertain Pigcasso with various activities and the sow initially showed an interest in football, before taking picking up her first paintbrush.
Armed with lots of piggy treats and using a technique called clicker training, usually used to teach dogs new tricks, Joanne taught Pigcasso to paint.
She can now paint with long brush strokes, knows how to dip the brush in the paint and how to apply it to a canvas.
‘I do not force her to paint – she paints when she wants to. After all, at 450 pounds, she’s definitely the boss.
Joanne says that Picgasso’s artistic style is ‘what you’d call expressionist’ and that she takes her inspiration from the Cape Town landscape. Wow even now pigs can express themselves.
Her favourite subject? Favourate subject.... I didnt know pigs have favourate subjects.
Table Mountain.
And she even ‘signs’ her pieces with a ‘signature’ – by dipping her snout into paint and printing it on. This got me really signature of a pig.
After having been rescued by a lady named Joan Leflon.
This is Pigcasso. She was rescued from the slaughter house and is now living her best life with friends of CapeTown. Rescued..? Poke eaters did ya'all hear this.
And she’s become an artist. The famous pigccasso making a $1,000 painting.
Pigcasso, a 450lb pig, is apparently rarely seen without a paintbrush in her mouth and spends the majority of her time at her easel in the fields of Cape Coast. Huh....
She was originally bred to be slaughtered at a pig farm but was rescued at four weeks old by her now owner, Joanne Lefson, who was upset by the squalid conditions she was kept in.
Pigs on today’s industrialised factory farms are kept in merciless conditions deliberately hidden from public view,’ says Joanne.
‘If consumers could see inside, they would think twice about bringing home the bacon.
‘Breeding sows are confined in narrow cages for life, while their offspring are raised for pork and kept in filthy, overcrowded conditions…with no straw, no access to the outdoors and no quality of life. Wow
She says that she wanted to help and so went to the factory farm where she asked if she could buy one of their piglets.
‘I’d have brought them all home if I could,’ she says.
Pigcasso was rescued in May this year – having been due for slaughter in September. Rescued poke lol.....
Bizarrely, Joanne says that she tried to entertain Pigcasso with various activities and the sow initially showed an interest in football, before taking picking up her first paintbrush.
Armed with lots of piggy treats and using a technique called clicker training, usually used to teach dogs new tricks, Joanne taught Pigcasso to paint.
She can now paint with long brush strokes, knows how to dip the brush in the paint and how to apply it to a canvas.
‘I do not force her to paint – she paints when she wants to. After all, at 450 pounds, she’s definitely the boss.
Joanne says that Picgasso’s artistic style is ‘what you’d call expressionist’ and that she takes her inspiration from the Cape Town landscape. Wow even now pigs can express themselves.
Her favourite subject? Favourate subject.... I didnt know pigs have favourate subjects.
Table Mountain.
And she even ‘signs’ her pieces with a ‘signature’ – by dipping her snout into paint and printing it on. This got me really signature of a pig.
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