Crazy Animal Portraits in Mixed Media

9x12 Mixed Media Collage on paper

 "Call me 'Cat' or 'Catty'.  But DO NOT call me late for dinner."

Cat Sketch Fever Bad Cat Naughty Cat

I got my face right up close and personal to Cat one time. ONE TIME.  Never again.  She actually bit my face.  I was stunned.  Never had a cat done that to me before.  I thought they were all much too sensitive to do anything like that.  I didn't like her for quite a while after that. 
Now I try to read her carefully before approaching her. Rarely do I put my face up to hers.
She's a tough read.  
I'm still disappointed in the face bite incident. It was just so uncalled for.

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Cat Sketch Fever

Cat doesn't always handle defeat well.

Best to talk softly, coo, and keep a safe distance from Cat when she takes on this appearance.

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Cat Sketch Fever: Fat Cat Series #9

Spies Fly: Cat Plots

Cat occasionally thinks of us, his beloved family members, as prey. 

As I've said before, Cat can be loving one moment, then prowls, chases and even bites and scratches us the next.  Without provocation.  It's discomfitting.

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Fat Cat Series #6

Nick found this cat on Craig's list.  He fell in love and knew this was The Cat.  It was his birthday and this is what he wanted.  His good friend Joe called me up and asked if he could be the one to go and get the cat and buy it for Nick.
What a sweet friend.  We went together, then surprised Nick with a bunch of friends and the tiny kitten on his 17th  birthday.

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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.

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We were told Cat was 8 weeks old, but when we picked her up she was itty bitty, not yet weened and somewhat frail. But precious. The single mother of toddlers who sold us Cat was stressed out and wanted the kittens GONE.  The vet guessed Cat was 4 weeks at best.

She developed diarrhea ( can be deadly in such a tiny, young creature) and we had to watch over her carefully night and day for weeks. She was fed formula out of a bottle.

This Cat loves to eat.  She meows incessantly when she finds her food dish empty, even if she isn't at all hungry.  It's the principle of an empty dish, to this fat cat.

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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.