Tag Archives: cat artwork

Hand-printed Valentine Cards Purr-sonally Inspected By Discerning Black Cats

I usually print these little linocuts in earth tones or “tabby colors”, but I’ve been itching to use brights and pastels and all sorts of combinations with them. I decided they made cute valentines and that’s a great reason to create hand-printed cards in magenta on pink, violet, magenta and red card stock, embellished with […]

Daily Sketch: "Clash of Titans"

The studio wrestling champions, brothers Giuseppe Basil Verdi and Sir Jelly of Bean, engage in the kitchen but it’s all in fun. It started out when Giuseppe said his brother was a dirty mess and needed to be cleaned up and wavered between a bath and a rock ’em sock ’em boxing tournament, then flat […]

Daily Sketch: "Blending"

Jelly Bean watches out the upstairs window, streaming with winter morning sun. The white light glares and introduces all sorts of colors where they don’t normally appear, in Jelly Bean’s black fur, on the pine tabletop, in the lace curtain. . . . . . . . Where to find this artwork I have this […]

Fifteen Years

“Aurora Borealis”, a sketch I did for an illustration for a book about two polar bears who…I don’t remember the story line, but I do remember checking my voice mail at home while I was at work that last autumn I was at my day job, and listened to the message from the small press […]

A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: "A Wonderful Gift"

SOMETIMES A CAT has so many connections to other cats or people or circumstances or places, but then this Peaches’s life was intertwined with her rescuer’s before she was even adopted. Sometimes the cat and the person are simply meant to be together. . . . . . . . Here’s how Peaches was rescued… […]

A Year in Memories, My 2014 Fosters

A Year in Memories: Emeraude, Kennedy, Smokie, Bella, Ernie and Bert It’s been some year with fostering. We lost Emeraude on February 3. Kennedy arrived on June 16 and left us on August 6. Smokie arrived on August 27. Bella arrived on September 17. Bert and Ernie arrived on November 26. Thanks to each one […]

January Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: "Rolling Around"

I’ve been planning on using this art as a winter month desktop calendar for quite some time, and I’m so glad the time has finally come around! Here is what I said about it when I posted it as a daily sketch on October 12, 2013: Giuseppe was having a really good roll around on […]