Color Cat Studios

Monday, March 14, 2016

Testing Art Materials

Doing some testing with new materials, and learning how to say Cadmium Red Light in five languages.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Crawfish!

Had the best crawfish I've EVER had downtown today. Mmmmm.

Michaelangelo Quote

I love this quote. It's on top of a photo I took on one of my bike rides. Still at this point I'm trying to identify this tree. Any guesses?

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Art with Kids-Always Fun

The many steps in mixed media. Fun with my students!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

New Painting, 'Hidden' for Sale

This is my new painting 'Hidden,' for sale on my site, colorcatstudios101.etsy.com. I've shown several closeups here; for an indepth description, it's at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Upside Down Classroom

I keep my students at this. Drawing from an upside down picture gives surprisingly good results. It's all in comparing proportions, and it removes preconceived notions of what something looks like.

This drawing isn't very good, but I did it in probably one or two minutes.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Teeny Tiny Art - Emile Zola

Once again, it's... teeny tiny art time!!!! An inspiring quote by Emile Zola on a multi-layered piece.

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!