Halo Cat wants the 1800s back! He wants to live in Naples!
Cat Painting Tuesday: Halo Cat
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Cupcakes
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.
Cat Painting Tuesday 2/15/11
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.
Cat Painting Tuesday 2/8/11
Sometimes cats have hard lives. Cookie Monster refuses to share:
And they get baths.
Miss Marmalade loves cookies. When I eat them she tries to get them from me. Sometimes she employs devious methods- looking cute, climbing on me and purring (usually I eat cookies while laying on the couch)- but more often she tries to snatch them away by force.
That’s what inspired this painting.
Cat Painting Tuesday 2/1/11
This is kind of a Loch Ness Monster Cat.
Cat Painting Tuesday 1/25/11
Cat As The Creepy Protagonist of A Korean Horror Film
– I personally feel that Korean horror films are the world leaders in the genre.
Cat Painting Tuesday 1/17/11
Yellow eyed Jungle Cat!
Cat Painting Tuesday 1/11/11
Marmalade Pretending She Wasn’t Eating The Flowers
Cat Glitter Christmas Sweater Tuesday
(I)… desire only to sit on cushion eating chocolate and watching Xmas specials. It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one’s will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds. – Bridget Jones’s Diary
Ain’t that the truth?
Here’s one last gasp of the Christmas spirit for Cat Painting Tuesday, or should I say, Cat Glitter Christmas Sweater Tuesday:
Happy New Year!
Cat Painting Tuesday 12/28/2010
The title of this painting is something like “Oh No! Biped Monsters Want To Wash My Eye Boogers!”
Stocking Stuffers
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.
Cat Painting Tuesday 12/20/2010
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.
White Elephant Gift
I received this in one of those White Elephant gift exchanges- you know, the ones where everyone tries to bring something terrible that costs less than 10 bucks.
It’s so strangely appropriate and yet so terribly, terribly wrong at the same time.
Christmas 2010
With only 10 days til Christmas, things are starting to get festive around here.
The Ice Cream Turkey is ordered.
The tree is decorated.
And so is the one at Ocean Beach.
Upcycled wreaths have been created, out of cardboard:
And out of skittles.
Stockings are hung in front of the Diana Wynne Jones books with care.
Christmas CDs have been mailed out to lucky recipients!
Cats have been dressed in Christmas costumes.
The streetscape is decorated.
Cat Painting Tuesday
Miss Marmalade is gettin’ in the spirit.