Color Cat Studios

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Art History Simplified

Pretty much love this. Couldn't explain it better myself!

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The Other Half

Here's the other end of my lion that I previously posted, with that unearthly, gloriously glowing blue vibrating at the bottom. This little painting really does vibrate in person! For sale!

Lion Painting

There's nothing like a super detailed pen and ink on top of color, glorious color! for sale. #colorcatstudios

You can find the entire piece at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com.

Lion!

There's nothing like a super detailed pen and ink on top of color, glorious color! for sale.

You can find he entire piece at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Growth Dyptich

More of my dyptich! I guess I just need some spring growth today! For sale at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com, and you can find other pictures there as well.

Is piece is so fresh, happy and inspiring.

multi-language dictionaries for collage because I am fascinated with languages and love to study and learn them. I think this is Latin, my favorite language of them all by far. Anyway, I digress. FOR SALE!

Monday, February 6, 2017

Dr Seuss on My Painting

Dr Seuss quote on my leaf painting. Pretty inspirational if you ask me! Painting available at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

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!