Color Cat Studios: pets

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

Cat Watching Over Me

Anybody have an animal that watches over you? Honestly, now and then I paint a piece that I’d love to keep. However, I don’t want to drown in paintings either, SO... I would actually love to sell him! This piece is called ‘The Watcher’ because my baby sat like this and faithfully watched over me after my surgery. You can find him and all kinds of beautiful, original pieces at

ColorCatStudios101 at Etsy

Note: This is literally half of the painting. The other gorgeous half is on my website noted above. Wink wink.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

My Cat Painting

For this watchful cat I used our baby for inspiration as well as the Cheshire Cat. Couldn’t resist that little quiet smile. This one’s done mostly in bronzes and golds, and I’ve got gold behind a thin veneer of green and yellow paint for the eyes. This makes the eyes glow like a cat’s in certain light. Find him for sale along with a lot of other animal paintings at

colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

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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!

Color Cat Studios

Saturday, March 7, 2020

Cat Watching Over Me

Saturday, May 5, 2018

My Cat Painting

I snapped this cool photo in a sewing shop.

Seussical Sets Truffula Trees