Today’s kitty

The technique I used for this kitty is a mixture of ink and pencil. It was demo’d in Carla Sonheim’s 365 workshop of prompts. We used the technique with chicken sketches but I used it for this kitty and a 5 minute Sktchy portrait.

I’ve included all of the sketches here. I really liked doing the chicken sketches, they are a lot of fun.

Enjoy!

Aura kitty

This kitty is totally by chance. I used a thick brush of gesso to paint a kitty on white paper. The interior of that white gesso’d kitty is the final orangey kitty that you see here.

Update on my mom:

She looks forward to these cards that I send her. When I am on the phone with her, she talks about them. She makes up stories about them. She compares them to her cats. Mailing her these cards is helping her in a way because she has a connection with them. She says when she’s feeling sad, she looks through her book of cats. Dementia can be hard on the patient and it’s little things like these cats that make all the difference.

Ghost kitty

This kitty is another one from my pile of “starts” that I have for inspiration. It started with a gesso kitty on black paper. I like this kitty project because I can use it to experiment.

On another note, my mom is having good days and bad. She is forgetting a lot of stuff. Dementia is both hard on the patient and the family. They make stuff up or live in a fantasy world and confuse basic things like when they spoke to you. I am just glad she is in a safe place.