Category Archives: Cute Animals
October Cats!: Part One
Yay! More cats! This time it’s Venus, the Chimera cat! Actually, according to this National Geographic article, it might not actually be chimerism, which is what happens when two embryos fuse together giving the animal (or person) two different sets of DNA, but whatever the cause might be, you can’t deny that this is one stunning feline. [...]
Double Feature: Marshmallow and Oreo
I’m baacckk! It’s been a while. I took a bit of a long break there, but now I’m back with a double portrait! This time around it’s of one of my best friends cats whose names are Marshmallow and Oreo. They are such cuties (and with such delicious names!)
Three More Cats
More cats! We’ve got The Cheshire Cat (from Alice in Wonderland of course), Luna from the anime Sailor Moon, and my cat Hailey. I let myself go a little crazy with the colors for The Cheshire Cat, I’ll admit. I always loved him in the books and in the movies. Luna (looking a little annoyed, [...]
Night Owl
Painting 26 of 30: Night Owl A couple of years ago I had to do a portrait of what animal I thought I would be. At the time I did a mouse surrounded by candy, which I think might be floating around as one of my very earliest blog posts. Lately I’ve been feeling more [...]
Stencil Cat
Painting 25 of 30: Stencil Cat This is what I was working on last night, that I messed up on so badly. I was using a stencil to outline a cat shape and then use watercolors to color it in, but I didn’t wait for the paper to all the way so of course it [...]
Guinea Pig From Space
Painting 12 of 30: Guinea Pig From Space Just playing around with some different surfaces (which I didn’t like and will never use again. You just can’t get very good, clean edges on canvas board.) This is definitely one of the sillier pieces I’ve ever produced. When I scanned it, it created this weired texture, [...]
Little Fish, Little Fish
Painting 5 of 30: Aquatic Erasers Just some quick little gouache paintings of erasers I have. I wanted to to something quick to make up for all the time I spent on the piece from yesterday that would also allow me to use gouache again. It was a little bit easier this time around and [...]
A Painted Horse(head)
Painting 4 of 30: Carousel Horse Study So…I know I said I wasn’t going to spend more than 3 hours on one piece but…this obviously took me more than 3 hours (I’d say at least 7 or 8). I started doing the drawing and then I started painting and I was like “Hey, this is [...]
It Came From Planet Meow
Painting 1 of 30: Space Cat Ever since I saw the picture of this cat that I used for reference, I’ve wanted to paint it. And so I did. I wanted to play with the colors to make it less “real” cat and more “Space Cat”. I imagine that this cat would probably come from [...]
Bookplate Finals
Here is the final for the unicorn bookplate. I did another sketch inbetween the final and the last sketch.