Other Than Fertiliser,

I can not think of any other use for cow poo,

photograph Werner Härtl, but one German artist Werner Härtl has a unique use for it, making sepia-style paintings, the German artist started experimenting with cow dung in 2012, during a stint as an agricultural worker. He packed some manure into a canister and used water to dilute it in order to obtain different sepia tones, these days, he prefers to get the ‘paint’ directly from the source, placing the canister just under the cow’s rectum as it poops, a procedure he luckily only has to perform twice a year for his painting materials,

a resident of Reichersbeuern, a village in Germany’s Bavaria region, Werner Härtl uses the state’s rural and agricultural background as the main source of inspiration for his paintings, cows are his favourite subjects, but his paintings also depict tractors and other agricultural machinery, fertile fields, village houses, and even self-portraits, “While painting, I use water to dilute the dung and achieve different shades,” told Ripley’s. “I start scribbling using very dry, gentle brushstrokes. Then, I use watered-down dung for light shades. Finally, I use dung with no water mixed in for the dark shades" and now the obvious question, or at least the answer, “When it is wet, the ‘paint’ is a bit funky, but when it’s completely dry, it doesn’t smell anymore,” the artist said, adding that it usually takes a few days for the cow dung smell to disappear from the canvas, and up to two weeks from a sheet of paper, cow poo as paint, who would have thought it?