Color Cat Studios

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Lion Painting

My lion painting fairly vibrates with color. This is a closeup; you can see the full painting at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com. This one is in my current solo show.

Thursday, February 16, 2017

A closeup of 'Reconstructing Alice.' My Big Ben is one of the paintings hanging in my current show. Set your calendars for March 28, my solo show and wine tasting at Crisp Eatery in The Woodlands. You can also find my work at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

The Eyes Have It

Here's looking at you. I combined acrylics and archival Pitt pens for this fascinating piece. For sale at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com, and there you can also see the entire painting.

Mixed Acrylics

Mixed and ready to go. These are Matisse tube acrylics, which are quite thick. I needed more viscosity to flesh out my idea so added a Golden drying retarder and matte medium, and a little water. These paints are ready to MOVE! No brushes allowed, it'll all be hands and palette knives.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Into My Work

I really get in to my work. (It's the painting that counts.)

Encouragement from Walt

🐭 What!? Encouragement for the day, a freaky fact about Walt Disney, on my painting.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Crisp Wine Beer Eatery, Solo Show!

Set your calendars for my solo show at Crisp, coming up March 28! My art is hung and it looks beautiful! It's hung in their gorgeous special events room and represents two years of my work.

My daughter says the first poster is too hard to read, hence...

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!