Cat on the bath

Posted on November 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bath, Cat, Cheerful, Drips, Fun, Girl cat, Paws, Playing, Water2 Comments

She always greets me in the bathroom. Follows me in there. She drinks out of a glass on the edge of the bath. She prefers that to a bowl on the floor. I don’t know why she has this foible, but it’s her choice.

She also likes playing with dripping water, I’ve left the tap on a trickle and she will put her paw into the drips then lick it. It’s fun to see her playing around with it. She is a beautiful tuxedo cat, very shiny fur, neat and tidy and sweet. She also plays football with a little stripey ball, dribbling it between her paws. Such a playful cat.

Tee shirt idea

Posted on November 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Art, Black and white, Copyright, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Sketch, Tee shirt design4 Comments

So when I was watching a lecture yesterday about copyright © I doodled this. Apparently I own the rights to anything I draw or paint and I don’t have to register it with anyone. So even this doodle, scruffy and just roughly drawn is my property. I guess I haven’t really thought much about it. I know my finished work is copyright but I hadn’t thought about little sketches. You have to be aware of other people’s designs, and plagerism, but I don’t think I have seen anything like this before. Anyway I think it would be fun to design tee shirts.

Pots…

Posted on November 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ceramics, Faces, Fun, Humour, Layout app, Odd, Photo, Playing, pots, TerracottaLeave a comment

Duplicated photo with ‘faces’….

Doing the mirroring in layout again to create something slightly different. I also see leaning Teddy bears! And an upset frog or fish? What do you see?

Blurry cat

Posted on November 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Caring for cats, Cat, Flea collar, Fun, Happy, Outdoor cat, Playing, Purr, Settee, Toy, VisitingLeave a comment

Outdoor cat is in again. In fact he’s been in three times today. Mainly to avoid the noise of fireworks 🎇 going off.

He will sit on the settee for an hour then mooch back off to the backdoor, to be let out. He’s also eating in the kitchen now. In the past he was eating in the shed, then by the back door. Eventually he started eating inside the back door with the door open… Now, inside. Next thing I want to do is get him a strong flea collar. He’s worn collars in the past so it should be OK.

Tonight there is more progress, he actually played with a cat toy for a few minutes, then came over to be petted by both of us and purred loudly. I’m glad he’s ‘playing nicely’ he’s twice the size of my other cats. I want no squabbles. So I’ll stay up till he wants out again, just to ensure my other two are OK.

I was bored

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art?, Bored, Drawing, Fun, Funny face, Humour, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Silly3 Comments

When your hubby

brings a cabbage home

Do you draw

a face on it?

Do you knit a scarf

For your leafy friend?

Hold a leafy party?

Do you dress it

In dolls clothes

Put tiny ballet shoes

on it’s roots?

Blusher on its cheeks?

What do you do

When you’re bored?

Abstract and strange

Posted on November 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Fun, Layout app, Leaves, Pattern, Photos, Playing, Tray, Tree, ViewLeave a comment

We know how something natural looks. It is often untidy, not always symmetrical, analogue not digital. But when you play with photos you can create structures that don’t exist in reality, you can expand distances and change perspectives. That’s what I did with the photo I used to create this. A kind of tree tray or chandelier. I don’t know, but abstracting as much fun as I can…

Reflections

Posted on October 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Eyes, Green, Image, Lamp, Lampshade, Layout app, Mistake, Odd, Photo, PlayingLeave a comment

I do like odd images that happen as a happy accident. This is our lamp shade reflected in the side window. I think it’s a bit like a floating jellyfish or an emoji? The two dark patches are the eyes and the bright patch the nose. Rather than dismissing it as an error I started playing around with it….

Now it looks like strange eyes and a nose… Sometimes it’s a fun idea to explore and use your mistakes.

Cat and ball ⚽

Posted on October 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged ball, Cat, Chase, Dribbling, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Living room, Ping-pong, Playing, Stairs2 Comments

Our cat loves this ball, it’s a ping-pong ball covered in a knitted stripy fabric.

Suddenly there will be a clatter and the cat, who takes the ball upstairs in her mouth, is chasing it downstairs, then into the kitchen or along the living room floor.

She bat’s it backwards and forwards between her front paws, or under the settee then pulls it back out with her claws. The game goes on for half an hour or so. In which time she will run up and down stairs several times. If she was a footballer she would be a premiership star!

Last night I started throwing the ball up stairs and then she chased it back down. Having cats are fun.

Drawing with nail varnish

Posted on October 14, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Experiment, Fun, Looking, Nail varnish, Playing, Portrait, Sketch4 Comments

This is a thing now. I had a sketchy picture of my hubby done on black paper. I’d used pastels to do the drawing back in September, but after playing with nail varnish to draw a landscape view, I decided to use them on the drawing. It certainly had an interesting effect. It’s shiny and the colours change depending on where the light bounces off. I finished it off with adding a few lines with a silver marker pen. It reminds me of oil on water.

Hey hooman, fetch me my tea

Posted on October 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Catnip, Food, Fun, Hooman, Humour, Life, Playing, Toys, You are in my controlLeave a comment

My paws are cold, turn on the heating hooman. Miaow, where’s my food? Little questions or demands they make. Insisting they are served. Hooman you have no choice, you are in my power. Now play with me, no I want to curl up and sleep, oh I’ve changed my mind, I want to go out.

Hooman, you should know I don’t eat THAT food. It is not special enough. Give me more of the rich tasty stuff.

Hooman? Where is my catnip? I née my catnip toy. I love you hooman. But don’t try and pick me up! No I won’t take my claw out of your hand!

Purrr, I’m feeling friendly. Let me put my claws in your leg. Oi let me down hooman. I’ve had enough fuss!

Mallaband-Brown

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