Taking in cats

Posted on April 27, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1918, ginger cat, Happy, Life, regret, Rescue cats, vets10 Comments

Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

Almost all of our cats have been strays or rescue cats. Starting with an old ginger cat whose owner no longer wanted him. I was at the vets with my friend and her kittens. We saw this straggly, ginger long haired cat, he was thin as a rake and it’s owner who was an elderly lady, could no longer care for him. We asked if we could take him in and she signed him over to us. He was quite old but he lived another couple of years with us. He used to walk along the wall between us and the house next door. He knew when I was coming home and came and greeted me. One thing I always do is teach my cats to come when I whistle them. I have never regretted the risk of taking our first cat in, and now after many years of cat ownership I still feel the same way.

Soft

Posted on July 7, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Drawing, ginger cat, Life, Prompt, Sketching, Soft, Tortoiseshell catLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was soft. I decided to draw a mad soft tortoiseshell cat. It’s just imagined so it might be a bit deformed in shape! Felt pens again..

Black ink

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black ink cat, cat in a garden, Creative, ginger cat, Life, lino cut, lino print, Printing, tiger catLeave a comment

‘Tiger Cat’, a lino cut I have done, well finished off, today. The top is the lino block and the bottom is the print in black ink onto hand made paper. I’m going to get some blank cards and envelopes and print a few cards off. X

Ginger

Posted on March 8, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Drawing, Funny, ginger cat, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Sketch, StripesLeave a comment

There was a cat called Ginger

He was really fat

He went upstairs quite slowly

And at the top he sat

I called him for his breakfast

I called him for his tea.

But there he lay upon his mat

Until he rolled and jumped back down

Much slimmer now, not fat!

Borg Cat?

Posted on December 9, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Borg, Cat, Fun, ginger cat, Photo, Plate, print run.co, Sci fi, Silly, transfer print, victorianLeave a comment

We will assimilate you…

Photo of a crunchy cat nibble on a cat plate. It just struck me that it looked a bit like a Borg…

The plate was made by PrintRun.co

I think it’s a victorian transfer print that has been repurposed for a modern market. But the image of it with the cat treat just made me chuckle.

Cat

Posted on October 9, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, ginger cat, Lines, opacity, Patterns, Pens, Swirls, transparency3 Comments

I started digitally drawing and I can’t stop…

I do love cats and this ginger cat doodle cheered me up. I’m still learning how I want to use the various tools. I have to think about opacity when I’m using this app which is called sketcher free. It seems to be about line drawing rather than a more painterly app like ArtRage oils. But that makes this more of a drawing app. Hope you enjoy?

How do you release jelly (jello?)

Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, cat mould, Dessert, Food, Funny, ginger cat, jello, Jelly, jelly mould, Life, Orange, Trying4 Comments

Trying to make a ginger (orange flavour) cat jelly.

I was given a cat shaped jelly mould a few years ago but never used it. Then yesterday I decided to make an orange jelly for fun. I could have added fruit or trifle sponges to strengthen it but I wanted it to be pure jelly, and I was going to call it ginger and maybe take a few photos in different places before we have it for tea.

I tried mixing the jelly powder but I didn’t realise it hadn’t all dissolved until I cleaned the bowl I’d made it in, would that weaken the jelly? Then I couldn’t lie it down level because it’s head is higher so I had to prop it up in a bowl to put in the fridge. I let it set overnight. But how to get it loose? I tried running a thin knife round the edge, then turned it up on a plate, wobble, no! Tried running the mould under the hot tap, no! Tried tapping the mould, whoosh, a few bits dropped out, tried a knife again and tapping.. It finally came out, a saggy, wibbly wobbly brother cat to the solid mould.

Does anyone know what I should have done?

Ginger swirl

Posted on May 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Art, ArtRage app, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, ginger cat, Sketch, Sketching6 Comments

I did this drawing on the ArtRage app. I wanted to create something a bit different, fluid, expressive. Most of my pictures are of black and white cats, but this reminds me of a swirling ice-cream, perhaps ginger and vanilla, or caramel and white salt.

Signature.. sometimes I use my full name, but for years I’ve also called myself cmb, which I like because it also stands for cosmic microwave background..but that’s another story.

Mallaband-Brown

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