Color Cat Studios: charcoal

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Class is In Session! Charcoal

Just getting dirty with my advanced art students today. Charcoal. Gotta love it. Honestly, there are few things I would rather do than spend creative time with kids. Love them so much.

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Three New Coaster Designs

Here’s a little overview of my three new coasters. Which one do you like best? For me, it seems like my favorite is the one in my hand at the moment.

These creative hands have come to represent, at least for ME, creativity in all humankind.

Sweet as a daisy.

Making the keyboard look good.

Really love this design.

And here they are, all together. :)

I wanted to take a couple shots to show how shiny and reflective they are. LOVE! ❤️ And yes, we keep Christmas lights up all year ‘round in this window, hence the reflections.

You can find all these on my website, colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

You can also follow me on Instagram as Color_Cat_Cindy :). See you!

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Here’s the second in my new series of coasters! I put my treasured Bob Ross keychain that one of my students gave me next to it for size comparison. This is a photo of my hands holding a pot of charcoal. The pot is a reproduction of the ones Rembrandt used, which we purchased in his home/museum in Amsterdam. These coasters are now available in my shop for $8.00 each. Think about them for gifts as well as for yourself.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

My Art Studio

Black and white in my studio. What better way to celebrate a cold winter’s day?

Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!