Category Archives: drawing cats for mom

Last Alive After Five of the summer

Tonight brings the summer to a sad close….yes, we still have a little over a week to Labor Day, but tonight was the final AA5 of the summer☹️. This is also the week of Paint the Great South Bay. So far it has rained, I was swarmed by flies and bit by a yellow jacket.Continue reading “Last Alive After Five of the summer”

Kitty in coach class

My daughter was home for a week. On her travel day today, she received an email that her connecting flight was canceled. Now her seat assignment was in question and she envisioned that she would be in this very situation flying home. Fortunately, she was able to get an aisle seat and the flight homeContinue reading “Kitty in coach class”

Kitty and the horseshoe crab

Recently I have been reminded of a creature that isn’t the prettiest but it is ancient and it’s mating season is a major contributor to the food chain, primarily, the red knot and other migratory birds. We used to have a house near the Delaware Bay and our morning walks consisted of turning over exhaustedContinue reading “Kitty and the horseshoe crab”

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 doingContinue reading “Today’s kitty”

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 theContinue reading “Aura kitty”