The Zen of Kitty

September is almost over and Halloween is coming. My mom is a big lover of all things Halloween, horror, etc. she grew up reading horror comics and is still addicted to that genre.

It takes about two mailing days for my mom to get her cards that I mail. I always have to allow for that two day buffer when I want something delivered by a specific day.

That said, October 1st is Monday. OMG! Already? Yep. Since my mom loves Halloween so much, I am starting the Halloween cats tomorrow so that she receives the first one Monday and she’ll get a daily Halloween themed kitty until after the Day of the Dead.

So for all of you macabre, horror, gothic and Halloween fans out there, you’re in for a treat!

Go fly a kitty

Here’s my first kitty stamp print that I did a while back. It was sitting on my work table waiting for me to find a use for it. In Carla Sonheim’s Rightbraininess 365 year of prompts, she gave us the challenge of making a kite with mom in mind. So naturally I thought of cats.

I have instructions for how to make a homemade kite. I also wanted to make a card to send my mom and was trying to figure out how to combine the two. I mulled the challenge for a while. I worked out the dimensions of a full sized kite and scaled it down to post card size and realized that the test cat was the correct size. I grabbed some items from around my studio and here is my kite. It’s basically just a decoration and it’s going to be interesting to mail it, but it was a nice final send off for the last weekend of summer.

Nocturnal Kitty

John dragged me out of the house this evening. Still groggy from this cold or whatever sinus thing I am getting over. So annoying. All I want to do is nap and cough. A friend reminded me of the benefits of tea and that’s been helping the cough.

One thing about being a dedicated sketcher. I can sit anywhere and find something to draw. I never used to be that way. The irony is when I was in college, we were asked to fill up a sketchbook in a week and we were all freaking out. Now I would be like “just one?” 😂

Ahh, youth is wasted on the young.

So although I feel blasé, I managed to sketch the tree in front of a local Church on Main Street. It was there and I needed to draw SOMETHING. I figured while I was out I would do an Urban Sketch with kitty.

Kitty is resting under the tree. She had too many oysters from mooching so she needs to sleep them off.

This evening I kept is simple. My favorite, ink and washes.