I am shocked and repulsed by the (sudden?) gourmet marshmallow trend. Available at Whole Foods and instructions in Martha Stewart Living for doing it at home. Flavored with rose water, Meyer lemon, lavender, green tea, cognac, vanilla, enrobed in noble dark chocolate. No.
How can this be?
One minute everything was normal. Marshmallows came in giant bags that cost a dollar and went into down home desserts that nobody wanted to eat.
Now everything is crazy and I don’t like it.
Slightly Bizarre Cat Steampunk Illustration
I did this one with just the primary colors like they did back in the Siglo de Oro. Sometimes you have to do that.
In real life, she was laying on my backpack. But my backpack is ugly and, I suspect, both difficult and boring to paint. Hence the pillow.
I love the word Hence!
Halo Cat wants the 1800s back! He wants to live in Naples!
Unfortunately they were doomed to be hurled to the ground by a toddler, but they were good despite the caked in dirt. Double chocolate with buttermilk frosting.
And pirates.
Between Christmas and bad time management I haven’t managed to do the more careful layered paintings but I’m hoping to get back into that. This week is a step in that direction.
Also I am starting up a daily painting blog! Please check it out at KevinInmanArt.com.
This is kind of a Loch Ness Monster Cat.
Cat As The Creepy Protagonist of A Korean Horror Film
– I personally feel that Korean horror films are the world leaders in the genre.
Yellow eyed Jungle Cat!
Marmalade Pretending She Wasn’t Eating The Flowers
The title of this painting is something like “Oh No! Biped Monsters Want To Wash My Eye Boogers!”
I know it is awful to buy presents for myself only three days before Christmas.
But I found this wonderful vintage copy of Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones at the used bookstore, and I swear I only stopped in because I was walking past to buy contact lens solution. I loved these books so much growing up (the 80s) and I still re read them now.
Christmas tree ornament. I sprayed it with Damar varnish, which refuses to dry due to the ENDLESS SILVER rain LIKE STRINGS OF TINSEL AND FRAUGHT METAPHOR. So it has to live on the porch and not on the tree.
Here’s an art lesson. Damar will spread out damp paint (that’s what I did here with the white). So make sure your detail work is well dry before you spray it with Damar or it will just turn into a puddle. (Six months is the rule but who has six months?) Damar added to wet paint will theoretically make it dry faster, but not in this weather.