The watercolor pencils combined with the ink sketch was a style new to me last year but quickly became a favorite. Looking back on this sketch from the perspective of a year, I am thrilled with how colorful it is, all the colors mixed into Kelly’s fur, the loose blue
Read More…
148 total views, no views today
The colors don’t correspond to anything, I was just visualizing him this way while I watched him bathe. I did the simple charcoal sketch first, thinking I might just stop at that, but kept seeing the greens and blues and that yellow in this kind of rubbed-in style where the
Read More…
178 total views, no views today
It was originally going to be just Mewsette in profile, possibly in silhouette, with the green apple in the stainless bowl. Giuseppe, who does not like to be left out of anything, showed up and plunked himself down for a bath right in front of me…so he’s right on the
Read More…
93 total views, no views today
I made the mistake of turning on the little high-intensity work lamps today, and this was the result. See if you can figure out how many cats are here and just how they are positioned. Seeing them curled up under my work lamps was the second biggest inspiration to do
Read More…
121 total views, no views today
That stool has been a hot spot for couples in the past few days. Today it’s Mr. Sunshine and sister Mewsette, no doubt waiting for dinner, though that is some time away. I enjoy drawing them alone, but I really love the simple compositions they make when they are together,
Read More…
62 total views, no views today
When the sun moves around to filter into this window, Kelly hops over to enjoy it and have a nice bath on the cabinet. In a rare moment of repose, she sits still and lets the sun warm her back, the light reflecting back from the pine wood cabinet warming
Read More…
119 total views, no views today
Kelly enjoys the sun on her back on the bathroom windowsill, and also likely the reflected heat from the deck roof, just below. It’s not all that warm, but just warm enough to have the windows open in mid-afternoon. The pussy willow is right outside the window and the dappled
Read More…
58 total views, no views today
The colors don’t correspond to anything, I was just visualizing him this way while I watched him bathe. I did the simple charcoal sketch first, thinking I might just stop at that, but kept seeing the greens and blues and that yellow in this kind of rubbed-in style where the
Read More…
20 total views, no views today
Kelly is having a good bath in the sun while shadows and reflections fall all around her from the light streaming in the window. In the strong light she was in silhouette but highlighted by the light on her fur. What better than the depth of charcoal and the strong
Read More…
23 total views, no views today
I have a few of my more minimalistic cat drawings from college framed and hanging and stored in portfolios upstairs in my studio where I spent the weekend framing. After all the indulgence in color I am still in that space with just a few black lines on paper. This
Read More…
17 total views, no views today
Click the image to read and download.
Start with a 14-day free trial. You can cancel at any time during the free trial period.Click here to subscribe to The Creative Cat on your Kindle.
Specials on commissioned portraits and gifts.
Designed for cats, dogs and all pets, from Portraits of Animals.
775 readers Simple Feed Stats |
Get every new post delivered to your Inbox
Join other followers
