Color Cat Studios

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Hot Lilies!

I've collected postage stamps all my life; took me more than half my life to realize I was just collecting pictures! This piece was inspired by the stamp.

Beautiful artistic Christmas gifts being addd every day now to my site, colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Here's a nice closeup so you can see the beautiful wood grain..

It's on a beautiful birchwood box, good for shelf, counter or desk.

This angle shows off the textured gloss I used to echo the theme.

Even the back is fun! 5"x7" - just perfect.

Friday, October 7, 2016

Jerry's Artarama

My favorite #artstore in #Houston. Great service, great people, and I always seem to find friends down there.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Embossed Metal Sold

Sold this one tonight about two hours after listing it on my website.

You can find its full description at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com.

A nice little 5x7" - good for a shelf or table. Even the back is fun, and of course always signed.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Art Class!

I love my art class and students!

Every now and then we do totally right brained stuff!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Art Class

Art class today was pretty fun. And messy. Very messy.

Monday, October 3, 2016

Artist's Hands

Something tells me that my classes did a lot of painting today.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

The continuing saga of... The Artist's Desk

When my desk looks like this, it's a sign of good things.

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!