As the weekend comes to a close….

June was a full month preparing for my sketch club’s show, Arts on Terry, Father’s Day, etc and it all ended today.

This weekend was the reception “It takes a Village”, where two of my sketches were juried into that show, held at Roast Coffee and Tea House, (a PAC sponsored venue) in Patchogue. Several sketchers have pieces in the show and it looked great!

Here is my sketch of Mademoiselle Patisserie, one of the two. I did a smaller sketch with a cat back in the beginning of June, this one is approx 6×9, minus the kitty.

Another show that went up last week is PAC’s juried member show, “Patchworks,” where my submission, “Nod to O’Keeffe” was accepted into that show as well.

This is an abstract sketchbook that I worked on in between everything else. The idea grew from a smaller project and I just kept going with it until I had a full piece. I was really excited about it getting accepted.

Also ending today is my weekly doodle page for the week.

Lastly, today’s postcard, inspired by a kitty John and I saw on Friday. He was out on a hunting expedition on a rock jetty. He went all the way out until he found some goodies. This is him on the way back….we couldn’t believe he went all the way out. The seagulls all left when they saw him coming.

Stamped kitties

My sketchbooks are full of all sorts of fodder. For instance, I have a pages of cats that I did a long time ago. I have been pulling ideas from these pages and doing several things with them. The magnets were one idea.

Another idea was to make some stamps from my quirky kitties on one of those pages. So today I pulled out my gear and made a couple of cat stamps. Here is one of them that I used to make into a postcard.

Now that I have a few minutes…..

The past several weeks have been busy for me. I am still working on designs for my Zazzle shop. I have out sketching for our “It takes a Village” Sketch Club show. And I was organizing it, rounding the sketchers up so they had opportunities to sketch in Patchogue so they would have something to show. Two of my sketches were accepted into that show by the juror! Yay!

We had Arts on Terry, a street festival for the arts, this past Sunday. I spent time organizing our booth for that event. I also made a bunch of magnets to sell. I may make more of them to sell on Etsy.

I also worked on a piece for the Patchogue Arts Council Show, called Patchworks. I really went out on a limb and did an abstract book to enter into the show. It was something very different for me and it was accepted! Cool! I am really excited about that one.

I will post photos of my pieces on exhibit when I pop into those shows for the receptions.

Lastly, today’s kitty is my interpretation of how Chloe and Mack would get back at our kitty, Cleo….who is in Florida, now. Cleo tortured them unmercifully. Cleo would attack them when they came in through the doggie door. This is their payback, lol.

Tonight’s kitty

John and I went down to the bay this evening. This car was perfect for today’s kitty. We parked next to it and I whipped out the pen and postcard sized paper and sketched it. Then I added the kitty.

Ps, It is a 1930-something Ford. Fully restored. It was beautiful.

Saturday and Sunday’s kitties

This weekend has been quite a full one and I actually forgot to post yesterday. I was working hard on some magnets that I was making out of my sketches. I spoke to my mom as I was doing them. She is all excited about the cats she received in the mail and she was especially excited about one that she received from an artist in the Netherlands, Tamara Linssen. I met Tamara on the Sktchy App. Tamara has been following my cats that pop up on Sktchy. Tamara wanted to send my mom a card, too, so I emailed her my mom’s address and she received it in the mail last week. I live 3 hours from my mom so I had been waiting for my sister to take my mom’s photo with her card from Tamara. My mom was especially touched by the kindness of a stranger many miles away. She has dementia, but she was aware that the card was special because someone she didn’t know cared enough to make and send her a card.

Thank you Tamara for your kindness!

I read in AARP magazine that laughter is the best medicine for dementia patients. Today’s postcard is simple and cartoony, but mom will love it because this is exactly what all cats do when there is a fly in the house.😂

Lastly, I have spent the last couple of days sketchbook diving for ideas for magnets and then drawing and painting them out. Quite a few were cats and I was surprised how many there were in my sketchbooks.

These magnets are small but I tried to make them tiny art that people can enjoy at their desks or on their refrigerator.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.