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.

Agate kitty

#126

An artist I have been following for years, Teesha Moore, does a lot of creative collage art. She occasionally gives free handouts to the members of her club. A while back she gave us collage sheets of sliced agate. I used one of the agates and some of my home made stamps to make this kitty.

Kitty #125

Yes! That is correct! I counted and recounted a few days ago. I waited for today’s kitty to celebrate! It’s only 2 days short of our village’s 125th anniversary so it couldn’t have been timed better. I chose the Brick House Brewery (BHB) for today’s sketch because they are in the oldest business building in Patchogue, they are one of the oldest breweries on Long Island and they are hosting the joint effort brew “Pop Fizz Clink,” brewed by BHB and Blue Point Brewery, to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Patchogue.

Kitty strolled by on her way to see if she could hang out in the Hops Garden out back of BHB because pets are permitted, ok, dogs, but kitty thinks she’s a Chihuahua so that counts for her.

Got Milk?

Today was the ribbon cutting grand opening for the Coffee Bean. John and I went over to get coffee and hang out for the festivities. Plus this weekend, Patchogue is celebrating it’s 125th anniversary. So we hung around for that, too.

Kitty made an appearance. She was standing in line for milk.