New Year’s Eve

Here are two more sketches and some of my favorite kitties using the Sktchy App for reference photos. 2018 turned out to be the Year of the Cat for me with my mom going into assisted Living and using that as a side project, creating a postcard a day for her. Thanks to all of you for following me and all the likes and comments. I really appreciate them. I hope 2018 was a good year for everyone.

I also included (below) an Egyptian cat from my studio. She’s a little bit banged up from a fall to the floor but she still protects her realm in the studio. She’s on my “to do” list for repair.

Cat sketches

My husband and I are taking a holiday break, so I will be posting cat sketches for a few days.

Here are 4 pages from my sketch book. This sketchbook is for raw ideas and raw sketches. These aren’t polished works, they are where that polished art gets hatched. I scribble and doodle until I find something that I want to develop further.

I am playing around with two photos of cats for ideas. By doing different versions of the same cats, I come up with other ideas on what to create based on the sketches.

1 day before Christmas

A little bit of information about this book….I wanted to do a 12 days before Christmas countdown. As I worked on the book, I put numbers out of order so I have corrected that. I also want to add some embellishments which I will post over the next few days. This page is actually the cover. It is the day before Christmas today, but when I hang it next year it will be in the correct order.

Happy Christmas Eve!

First day of winter and 4 more days….

Today is the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year. I record the sunrise and sunsets for each day and there is a holding pattern where the daylight is about the same for about a week, give or take a minute, then we will start gaining back one to two minutes a day.

We have rain today. Just as well because we got about 2 inches of rain which could have been 20 inches of snow. So we don’t have a white Christmas so far but if you do have snow, have some fun with it!