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Friday, August 31, 2018

Little Floral

Flowers ALWAYS make me happy, and since it’s the weekend - let’s be glad! This is a closeup of one section of a painting I created in response to the pot of plants outside our front door. The colors, layers and subject cheer me. You, too can be cheered by going to my website and making it your own!

Friday, August 3, 2018

Watercolor and Mixed Media Florals

Celebrate the heat of summer and find some cool florals on my website. Just what you need to make you go ‘aaaahhhhh...’

Check out my website at

colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

to find all kinds of florals, and more pictures of this painting too!

Saturday, June 2, 2018

A Creative’s Summer Gardening

If you feel something wonderfully warm, if you hear something stretch within itself, it’s my squash. ❤️ ❤️

In the North we grew so much squash everyone would come to church with grocery bags full of the stuff. We would look at each others’ bags and try to give it away to someone, anyone! This is the first time in 19 years, since we’ve lived down here, that I’ve been able to grow squash.

We shall see if it can stretch itself into yummyhood before squirrel, opossum, coon, humidity, mysterious phenomenon or Act of God takes it out. We shall see. Artists are forever optimists.

Oh, the beauty with which God has surrounded us! Thank you, Lord!!

Saturday, May 5, 2018

God’s Beauty, My Garden

All nature rejoices at the beautiful rain we got last night. My coleus certainly do! These pretty babies make ME rejoice! Wasn’t God good to give us beauty? He didn’t have to do that. A tiny reflection of Him.

These do well in the shade, and actually get dappled sunlight for several hours a day. So pretty, and really inspiring for this artist.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Flowers for Sale!

You never know what you’ll find on my website. You’ll find acrylics on canvas, watercolors, mixed media, posters, magnets and all kinds of fun stuff. Check it out at 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!