Garden pictures

Posted on April 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Daffodils, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Photos, Plants, Summerhouse, Sunny, woodyLeave a comment

Oh its coming on…. I’ve been cutting back a few bushes and tidying up. The summer house is full of junk so it needs clearing out. I’m keen to go out there and paint. The weather has been lovely, we’ve not really had any April showers yet. I guess they will be in the way.

Oh I ache from trying to cut back overgrown buddlias and ivy climbing up the cherry trees. When the cherry blossom is out I will try and share photos.

By the way the cat is Woody, he’s the outside cat we look after. He’s really enjoying lying in the sun now the weather has improved. But we have tomato plants, so I’m scared he will squash them!

Finding the sun…

Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Black and white cat, Blogging, Cat, Fun, Photo, Photograph, Sleeping cat, Sunlight3 Comments

That’s what my cat does. He lies in the sun and keeps himself warm, and hides his head under his paw (an idea from the poem about a robin). Apparently cats sleep about 16 hours a day, but usually somewhere quiet where I can’t easily find them. But this morning, there he was in a Ray of bright sunshine. I had to reduce the exposure because it was so bright I was losing details.

Feathered or Furred

Posted on April 4, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Cartridge paper, Cat, Challenge, Drawing, Life, Pencil, Sleep, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

#uskstoke challenge. Today’s was to draw something furry or feathered. My cats were my subject. I used a 5b pencil on cartridge paper in a Daler Rowney, soft white, A4 sketchbook. One cat was on the cat tree which has several trays to sleep on. The other moggie was on the pile of washing that needs folding up. I’m going to do it when he gets off! He’s been asleep there most of the day.

So yeah, I could have done the birds outside. But apart from the odd wood pigeon, they don’t stay still long enough to draw.

Playing

Posted on April 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Ball of wool, Cat, Doodle, Drawing, Life, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Grab a stylus and doodle your cat. I used ArtRage oils to draw this. I didn’t have enough memory on my phone so I deleted it, but I’ve uploaded it onto another device. So maybe I can get on and do a few more digital drawings.

Lockdown, I hope it means I will be doing more art, if I can get my mojo back.

Does being shut for the duration mean you’ve lost yours too or are you being brilliantly creative?

Stay indoors, stay safe…. X

Love

Posted on April 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged ball, Cat, Fun, Humour, Love, Loving, Playing, Sleep, Tennis ballLeave a comment

She likes climbing up on the airer to have a love, she rubs her cheek against my hand, pushing her nose into my palm. The tower of trays in the background is where she sleeps, curled up above the warm radiator.

Paws on the towel, staring at me. Looking for a cuddle, or sometimes her cat biscuits. She’s a lively cat. She chases toys like a professional footballer. Rolling a tennis ball along with one small front paw. Goal! She pushes it under the sideboard. I act as goalie and fish it back out again.

A graceful gracious cat…

Sketch idea

Posted on March 25, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink marker, Cartridge paper, Colouring, Design, Drawing, Experimenting, Felt tip pens, Fun, Pencil crayons, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

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I did the first drawing on Monday, a simple cat sketch, I coloured it with felt tip pens, but the ink bled through the paper, so I got a reversed image on the back of the page.

I decided to experiment and added some bright colours with pencil crayons . Then I got a black ink pen and outlined the gradations of colours in the drawing. Made it interesting…. Its something I’ve done before in paintings, I enjoyed doing it. X

USK S-O-T challenge….day 4

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Drawing, Felt pens, Kitchen, Life, Sketching, Staffordshire, Sunny day, Time, Urban Sketchers, Urban sketchers Stoke, USK S-O-TLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge was ‘Entertainment’,

I could have drawn the TV or a computer or phone screen, but I just love the way the cat stares out of the window at the birds, he can’t go out, so he likes watching them. Yesterday a couple of pigeons were perched in the cherry tree. Sometimes when he’s washing he’s really comical because he sits on top of our bird food box, he only just fits. The windowledge is too full of houseplants. He likes eating some of them. This is his spot, he entertains me.

Fork draw

Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Blogging, Cat, Day to day, Fork, Fork drawing, Messing about, Metallic paint, Painting, Playing, WordPressLeave a comment

Things to do at a loose end… I was asked to try and draw something with a fork for a Facebook group, I don’t know whether anyone else had a go? .. Well it ended up being a sort of forking cat! It was fun, but the acrylic paint didn’t make much of a mark, I tried adding water and then it splodged!

No doubt I will be posting more weird images as the days go on.

Colour that cat…!

Posted on March 18, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cat, Colour, Design, Digital drawings, Drawing, Fun, SketchingLeave a comment

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Two year old digital sketch. I’m just posting it for fun. All I’ve done for the last couple of days is moan about the virus or WordPress. Enough!

My love is for colour and pattern. Cats are also in the mix. I’m not saying this is a good drawing. It’s rough and ready, not anatomically correct, but it’s a bit of fun.

I’m going to try and find more apps to draw on. I’ve got obsessed by a colouring by numbers website and I’ve coloured over 200 images in just a few days. I think I’m sticking my head in the sand.

Primary colours, bold lines, pattern = fun?

Poddling

Posted on March 15, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Fun, Happy, Happy cat, Humour, Kneading, Lap, Love, Poddling2 Comments

I once saw a cartoon of a cat on a poster, paws kneading someone’s arm. The picture had a red circle with a diagonal red line across it. Below it, it said something like poddle free Cheshire.

Poddling, a lovely, possibly made up, word to describe when a cat sits on you, claws slightly out, kneading ‘poddling’ your leg. If you have loving cats like mine you end up with hundreds of tiny puncture wounds in your thigh. I try and wear trousers made of thick, dense material to protect myself. Sometimes this behaviour goes on for three or four minutes while my cat gently purrs to herself. It only stops when my hubby walks back in the room, then the cat leaps off and goes away ( he makes her nervous as he is quite loud!)

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