Color Cat Studios: Cindy Johnson

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

An Artist in Quarantine

Staying home and going into the print making business. What are you doing while you’re at home?

Aren’t these colors gorgeous? ❤️ I carve linoleum blocks (not pictured - sorry!). Once they’re done I roll on the ink!

The yellow and hot pink is one of my favorite color combinations. I can find all kinds of things to do when I stay home!

I hope you’re staying home too so we can kick this thing together. Take care and MAKE STUFF.

#covid19 #stayhomesavelives #workingartist

Friday, March 27, 2020

Today I’m celebrating the completion of a new painting! Yay!! I can’t show it yet but tomorrow I’ll work on photos to reveal it tomorrow evening. What you have HERE is a hint as to the color scheme. So happy! #stayahome #quarantinelife

Cool, huh? Some of my favorite watercolors below...

This paint is SOOOO AWESOME!

This last pic is an Artist Trading Card (ATC) If any of you trade ATCs, let me know!j

This particular one is a ‘swatch card’ of some of my handmade watercolor paints from Indigo Arts on Etsy. Love her paints!

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Art Online

Now available, all KINDS of lovelies! You can find them and much more of my work at

Society6, Color Cat Studios

The bag sports my “Phoenix Rising” painting.

I’ve got my art on all their phone cases now.

And... everyone needs a King...

Cool,huh? I’m really happy about this!

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!