Color Cat Studios: Lion Door Knocker Painting

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Lion Door Knocker Painting

Just listed, this powerful little 5"x7" stunner is color saturated. Big impact in a very small space! colorcatstudios101.etsy.com will give you all kinds of details, and one easy click will make it yours.

Always in art you go with surprises and 'mistakes,' and let the creativity flow around it. These surprises and unplanned flows of color either ruin the painting or make it. On rare occasion everything goes as planned, and this is one of those rare occasions. This lion is perfect! If someone commissions me to do another one like it, I am in big trouble!

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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

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Lion Door Knocker Painting

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