Color Cat Studios

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Teeny Tiny Art Time!

Finally some studio time, in a winter palette. Teeny tiny art time is back, after a long sabbatical! I love the subtle echo of the tree in muted colors.

Weapon of choice, my trusty Pitt pen, and some lovely watercolor pigments from Brusho. Great products!

Friday, December 9, 2016

Chinese Lanterns

These Chinese Lanterns are aglow! Mention this post for 10% discount on entire site until Christmas. For sale at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

On the website I've posted a lot of closeups so you can get a good look.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Peppers for Sale!

Red Peppers. One of the good things in life. Find yours at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

This is a cutaway of the peppers.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Dutch Artists

From one Dutch artist to another, I honor VanGogh with my Starry Night t-shirt. And rocking the big glasses.

Tiny Art

I'm often struck by the beauty of the plastic gift cards I use for painting tools.

Simple beauty.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Einstein Quote

Here's Einstein on a portion of my abstract painting. I really love this quote and wholeheartedly agree with it.

Abstract Acrylic

Here are s several shots of one of my abstracts.

First, the entire painting -

Here is a closeup...

Oh, man, I love this.

The textures and colors fascinate me to no end.

Last, but not least... :)

This is also available on my website, colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

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!