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Commissioned Portrait: Lassie

The two main reasons I decided to go ahead and start pet blogging was to give myself another place to share my writing, and an easier, more interactive way to share my artwork, especially commissioned portraits. I was working on Lassie’s portrait when I initiated The Creative Cat, so she

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Creating With Cats: The Fake Kitty, and Something New

I’ve been helping artist Chaz Letzkus with a new project, so he’s been visiting my house—and, of course, my cats! As I was working at the computer in my studio, he pointed at the black paws draped off the edge of the shelf over the door on the landing. “That’s

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Lassie

I was working on Lassie’s portrait when I initiated The Creative Cat, so she was the very first I featured just about three years ago today. Lassie was with her mom for 15 years and had just passed when her mom first called me. She was in nursing school and

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Nick, Slightly Unconventional

Nick was a full-bred Himalayan and also a rescue cat. His person had won a certificate I’d donated to one of the animal shelter benefits and decided she wanted to remember this long-lived Himalayan cat who was just a little out of the ordinary in several ways. For one thing,

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Creating a Portrait From Photos, Ideas and Memories

I’m preparing to start two portraits right now, and until I get a little bit of work done on either one I’d like to give a demonstration of how I’ve put different portraits together, in this case one of multiple cats who I had the chance to meet and observe

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Creating With Cats: Author and Artist Christine Davis

When you read an illustrated book, do you ever study the illustrations and wonder about decisions the artist makes about medium, technique, style and even subject? And what about the book’s physical size and shape, the whole little visual package in addition to the story that’s in it? Often some

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Book Review: Forever Paws by Christine Davis

For anyone who’s felt the empty, aching void left in their heart by the loss of a beloved animal companion that no tears or words can seem to fill, Christine Davis’s beautifully-illustrated gift book, Forever Paws, will tenderly help to fill and heal it with loving and beautiful thoughts and

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My Creative Process on “Buckley’s Story” by Ingrid King

As both an animal artist and photographer and a commercial artist and designer, my cats are my muse, even if they aren’t the subject of my creative endeavor. Ingrid King, author of Buckley’s Story, has featured me again on Buckley’s Story in “The Creative Process” as I get to offer

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