This week’s doodles and today’s kitty

Here is my week long doodles. I do one a day. It only takes a few minutes to do one and it has become part of my morning routine. Most times, what I am doodling is what happened the day before, unless I post about the weather.

Here is today’s kitty. This one is an imaginary kitty that I used the three primary colors, brown and added some white and black.

Mom and her kitties

As I am typing this, I realized that I forgot to take pix of Mom with her two cats. I sketch her cats from memory, photos would help. Oh well, next trip. Anyway, no sketches of cats today since we were there to visit Mom. Instead, I am posting photos of mom with her kitty postcards.

Mom has been getting her little postcard cats. She doesn’t always remember to go to her mailbox. When we checked today, she had 6 cards she hadn’t retrieved. I took pictures of her opening her cards and later, after we took her out for lunch, we hung her cards for her on the wall on little clotheslines. She loves her postcards. I know there are still a few on the way. We left her the little clothesline clips to hang more cats.

For close friends and family, I want to let you know, Mom’s memory is getting worse. She knows it. If you are planning a visit, don’t wait. Put it on your immediate “to do” list.

Urban sketching and kitties

I went out with my sketch club this evening and we sketched the Patchogue Carnegie Library. This library was built with grant money from Andrew Carnegie. The library has been moved, restored and is now the Teen Center and teen library.

I enjoy sketching outside so I got the idea to add a kitty to my sketch. I kinda like this idea. It’s like “where’s Waldo” with a cat. This kitty is going to the library to check out a book on native bird species. It’s good to know about your prey.

Casual Kitty

Sometimes the names for these tiny works just pop into my head.

Another Sktchy inspired cat, photo submitted by Melanie McGovern. You can have your cat painted for my mom, too. Just head on over to Sktchy, sign up and start posting photos. The hashtag #ginapleasedrawmycat is a great way to flag it so that I see it!

Jailbird kitty

I take Carla Sonheim’s year long 365 course. Every day she gives us a new prompt. Today’s prompt was a random pick where she picks two words out of a hat. I had to chuckle, today’s random words are cat and bars. At first I sketched a cat behind bars, but then this idea popped into my head.

Here is today’s kitty…..