Kitty and The Scream

This kitty was completed with three colors, blue, red & yellow, and black and white. I chose “The Scream” because I thought it would be humorous using cats. The triad color idea was today’s prompt from Carla Sonheim’s 365 days of prompts and ideas. The idea was to use red, blue and yellow. “The Scream” was the perfect idea. What I learned from doing a “master copy” was the Edvard Munch most likely used the same three colors, plus black and white to do his painting. That was today’s Eureka for me.I also forgot to post last week’s weekly page of doodles in yesterday’s post. I am posting it hear today.

Serendipity kitty

Today’s kitty is a lesson in Serendipity. In the world of an artist, serendipity means several things. Aside from being at the right place at the right time, serendipity also applies to the “happy accidents that occur in our work. We’re plugging along on a piece and something happens to alter the work. Paint spills, water droplets cause “blooms,” you are inking something and the pens skips on the paper, etc.At that moment, the artist can see their art in a different way and a “eureka!” happens. Some of the greatest accomplishments were caused by serendipity or a happy accident.Today’s kitty is meditating in front of a background that is an intentional serendipity piece. Many thanks to Carla Sonheim and the Rightbraininess daily prompt, for the word, serendipity.

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.