Color Cat Studios

Friday, February 3, 2017

Work for Solo Show

Here are two more paintings we hung today in my solo show at Crisp Wine Beer Eatery on Research Forest. Details coming soon.

Solo Show Hanging

Spent the entire day hanging my solo show at Crisp Wine Beer Eatery on Research Forest. Nice place! More to come.

Sculpting 101

Trying to keep a HEAD of my students. Get it? Get it? Beethoven WOULD roll over if he saw this one!

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Students' Hands

My students' very busy and very happy hands. It is good to do work with your hands!

An Artist's Manicure

An artist's manicure. Paints, plaster and spray paint continue to work thusly. Yes, they're CLEAN, just painted.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Spray Paint Emergency

Wow. Slight mishap with some spray paint today. Good thing I had gloves on... wouldn't stop spraying!

Onions for Sale!

Onions anyone? Here's a closeup of mine. Acrylics and ink on heavy rag paper. For sale at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Another shot...

And... :)

Very nice!

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!