Color Cat Studios: interior design

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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Metal Art

This one is COOL!!! It’s never been so easy to impress that unimpressable young person with a gift he’ll always enjoy. These dragon wings are available at Society6, Color Cat Studios

You can find my design printed on metal, canvas and all manner of lovely things. 20% off TODAY!

Friday, January 17, 2020

Oh my GOODNESS! iPhone and Galaxy people, how would you like my artwork on your phone case? Society6.com; search Color Cat Studios. Wow. I am LOVING this. Pretty sure we all need new cases. Love these!!!!

www.society6.com is where you get ‘em!

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Artist’s Flatlay in Studio

I’ve done quite a lot of layouts, always in a single color. This time I decided to celebrate the color wheel and just lay down those colors (sorry, purple, I owe you one.) Of note, gorgeous ribbons one of my students gave me on a cool gift, my metal embossed seahorse mounted on a box and a colorful swag I recently made which I toss over all kinds of things to brighten things up and celebrate. Oh, and my coolest ever striped purse from Target. And my cheap sunglasses. (These be no rhinestone shades.)

Friday, July 6, 2018

Floral Artwork, Patterns

Here is the floral pattern I’ve been working on in my studio. Inspired by my big, red hibiscus. Thinking I’d pick up a backpack if it had this pattern. Would you?

This could work for all kinds of things - cushions, drapes, and anything for the interior. That would be one cheery room! I would love to have this in a room filled with light and plants and wicker.

My dilemma as I was working was to keep it simple. As any artist works, there are so many decisions to make.

I had to fight my desire to paint the background (all white) either a deep blue or black. That would be showy and nice, but I wanted to keep this one light.

Because watercolor is such a fresh, immediate medium, I also had to fight the desire to ‘finish’ it by adding details in the flower centers and leaves. I felt that would detract from the beautiful bleeds and bloomed of the watercolor movement and flow. It might have erased it and covered it altogether!

Another decision was to NOT add darks for shading and dimension. I wanted to keep it slightly flat. Also to add the shading would have opened up the possibility of overworking the painting.

I think these were all good decisions. In fact... I like it! :) Do you?

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!