Featured Artwork and January Desktop Calendar: Waiting Around the Corner
From 2016: “This bright morning sunlight gets us all up and around and doing interesting things. It may look as if Giuseppe is planning something, really he’s just basking in that wonderful sun puddle that cats have enjoyed in exactly that spot since I’ve lived here. I stopped and looked at the deep shadows, the brilliant highlights and the reflected highlights in between and there was my daily sketch. Couldn’t sketch him right then, but took a quick photo, just before he stood up and stretched and walked toward me.”
I’ve been waiting to use this sketch as the featured artwork for a winter month, and since I sketched Giuseppe in action on January 4 (2016) it’s fitting that he’s here to bring in the Mew Year. When I looked over my options for this month—so many charcoal and monochromatic or minimal color sketches to choose from—I kept looking and looking and could not decide. I wanted to use them all! But I noticed I often use a pose where the cat is just being a cat and not paying attention to us. I’ve also always liked this sketch for Giuseppe’s direct expression.
The toned paper is wonderful for black cats, especially in the sun. Click here to see more sketches on toned paper. One of these days, I’m going to have to do something with that collection.
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A New Member Thank You
Register for an account on Portraits of Animals and get a free matted print of “Autumn Afternoon Bed” or choose from several other sketches, paintings or photos of cats and other subjects.
This New Member print is a signed digital print of my oil pastel “Waiting Around the Corner” made in archival inks on Epson Velvet Art Paper. This print is 5.5″ x 7.5″ and matted to fit an 8″ x 10″ frame with a black core white mat.
This print is only available as a new member gift during this month while it’s the featured artwork and desktop calendar, so make sure you sign up before the end of the month!
This month’s desktop calendar, “Waiting Around the Corner”
I’ve worked this image into a desktop calendar for you to enjoy and use for the entire month.
If these sizes don’t work for your device, or if you have problems, please let me know. Often I can troubleshoot the reason an image won’t download or won’t load on your device, but if I just can’t figure it out I can just email it to you and hope that works.
How to download and use your desktop calendar
- Click on one of the images below that matches the dimensions of your monitor to open the image in a new page.
- For desktop computers and laptops, right-click on that image and on a desktop computer choose “save as desktop wallpaper” or “save as background” or whichever option your operating system gives you to be able to do this. You may also simply save it to your hard drive and set it as your background from there.
- For mobile devices, download the image to your gallery then choose it as your wallpaper—this is slightly different on all devices.
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Take a look at other featured artwork and desktop calendar posts.
Each month I feature a piece of feline artwork from the archives to the present day, discuss its history and process, and set it up as a free downloadable desktop calendar for just about every electronic device available.
Click here to see daily sketches, click here to see daily photographs
click here to see other artwork featured on The Creative Cat
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