Sweet Cat Sketch and Mixed Media Painting

This IS Cat's "Come Pet Me I'm Irresistible" look.  It works for Cat; she knows it.
Despite all the rotten things I've said about her lately, she has a nice side. A calm side. A cuddly, loving, caring side.

I liked this pose and , at a friends suggestion, did a mixed media painting of this sketch.

18x24x1.5

Mixed Media

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Hungry Cat Fat Cat

Cat Sketch Fever #16

I think I've driven home the point that this Cat loves food.  She's overweight despite our best efforts otherwise.
Here, she's half in, half out of the kitchen cupboard.  She wants a treat and knows this is where we store the dog and cat treats.
If the dogs get a treat, Cat won't budge until she gets one too.

Cat Potato Cat Sketch Fever

Cat Sketch#14 Fever

Cat plays hard to get, but she follows us everywhere.  Her little heart's desire is to be near us all the time.

She watches the news with us each evening, and she agrees with us politically.

Cat Spies Fly Art Journaling Daily sketches

Cat Sketch Fever:  Fat Cat Series #9

Cat saw a fly.   For lack of a better description, Cat rapidly and repeatedly taps her teeth together when she spots prey. ( Nick witnessed this first and thought Cat was having a seizure.  He googled the odd behaviour, then informed us that this is what cats do when they hunt.)

Tune in tomorrow to find out how Cat handled fly.

Fat Cat trimmed down.

Cat Sketch Fever: Cat Fat Series #8

Cat and I were both feeling better soon, as the photo above suggests.
Did I say earlier that this cat loves to eat?  Fern thought I'd made cat 10 pounds lighter in this sketch.
We've tried putting her on a diet but she cries pitifully when we restrict her dish. Also, truth be told, Cat tricks us.  Fern feeds her, then after Fern goes to work, she comes to me saying she hasn't yet eaten. I buy it, feed her, then  someone else comes in and she tells them the same thing, etc. etc. So Cat probably gets 4x the correct amount of food some days.
She does look prettier thinner, doesn't she?

Fat Cat Series, Daily Drawings, Art Journaling, Cats, Kittens, Animals

Fat Cat Series # 5

Cat is unpredictable.  She's warm and cuddly, sweet and affectionate one minute, and then, for no reason at all,  agitated and nasty,  scratching and biting the next. I remember the vet telling me that cats taken from the litter too young can grow up to be "holy terrors".  When I asked her, skeptically, what exactly she meant by that, she just said, " oh, you'll find out".  She called that one right!

Cat, in peaceful repose after a splendid nights sleep. All is well in Cat's world right now.

Fat Cat Series, Daily Drawings, Art Journaling, Cats, Kittens,

Cat wasn't always called Cat.  We always name out cats, but regardless of any given name they almost always end up, "Cat" or "Kitty".

Yet another position of very lazy, very fat and slothful kitty















A slothful kitty isn't pretty,
But pretty funny
 When you tickle her tummy.

Fat Cat Series, Daily drawings and sketches of Cats,Art Journaling,Doodles,Drawing

It's been a couple of months since I made the commitment to draw every single day.  I should have started this 10 years ago when I began my art career in earnest.   I'm loving it and it's a great discipline.

An easy subject is my cat, Cat.  She's the first thing I see each morning (since she sleeps at the foot of the bed and since hubby is up by 4:30 am), so I just grab one of my art journals, a cup of coffee, and start drawing away!  I thought I'd resurrect my blog by sharing the sketches.

So here is the first of:

The story of my cat, take her home.
Drove for hours, kept her warm inside.
Story of my cat. ( story of, story of)
Story of my cat, I gave her milk
Stayed up all night
Nursed her back to health.
Story of my cat.  ( story of, story of)

As you can see, Cat loves to eat.  She developed a problem with food shortly after she was spayed. I'm not going into theories of why that might be; just providing a bit of the back story.
She spends a great deal of time on the bed.
Or at her food dish.

This cat has personality plus.  And she exudes it in her body language, which makes her a great sketching subject.

See you tomorrow.

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You may recognize this scene if you have driven through Leadville, CO.   I love this conglomeration of structures.  This little sketch is a cropped and abstracted acrylic and pencil done from one of my larger paintings that is currently hanging at Leomyka Gallery in Leadville.

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