Color Cat Studios: artist palette

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

An Artist’s Palette

Palette of the Day. My most-used tool. I think palettes are beautiful. This one represents animal fur and animal noses. :)

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Making your Day Palette-able!

Just trying to make your evening’s feed a little more PALETTEable! Har har har! Ah, hum. Yeah. Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Anyway, kind of pretty, isn’t it?

Monday, May 28, 2018

Ya know, every now and then I just really love the look of my palette and think it should be a painting. Such is the case today. Happy Memorial Day. Today I will paint a little, we will remember. We will eat, swim and celebrate,and plan to go down to ‘our’ sculpture down on the Waterway to pay tribute to our lost friends. Thank you to all who have served to keep us free and great, and grant us the freedom to plan our days in such a wonderful way.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Cookie Artist Palette

Seems a fitting way to end a year of art classes, doesn’t it? NO, I didn’t make these; one of my students did. And they tasted even better than they looked! Yum.

Friday, April 6, 2018

In Studio Today, Working

A tiny bouquet of baby bay leaves to help me stay out of the garden and in my studio today. If you EVER need bay leaves, ask! My tree grows so fast that I’m always trimming branches off. Wonderful flavor, pretty in bouquets. Even looks pretty on a palette!

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!