Hey, I decided to start a new blog with a similar name. You can now find me here at http://workingcatstudio.blogspot.com. See, I told you it was the same. I don't know why I just didn't change the name of this blog. Oh well, it's all a learning process. See ya on the other side.

I Keep Working...

A few projects that I have been trying to get ready for a June showing at the library. My first show-at the place where I work. I will be incognito but not really. I will use my first name and my middle name. We shall see how it goes...

So here's the backdrop of one of my projects. Hopefully it will be ready by June.

I think this one is finally finished but I think I will have to rename it. I especially like it in natural lighting.

This one I like the background but I think the tree in the foreground is too big. I think I will paint it out and make a new smaller tree.

Was working on her today. Wasn't quite the face I was going for . I think she is judging me. Definitely older than I thought she would be... Not done. More judging me I think.

I really didn't like this when it was a normal tree. It was sooo boring in green and brown. So I decided to mess it up. Daughter #3 calls it a cotton candy tree. I like it.

A new background for a painting. I am thinking a blond lady. Don't know where I am going with this.

Same thing except for the blond lady. Maybe a mermaid with black hair?

Snow...Again

Here we go. Another snowy weekend-another snowy painting. Wondering whether this one could use some more color. Maybe some hot pink or day glo orange....Just kidding, but not about the extra color.

Courtesy of Mizz C....

Jewelry rack

Have to give a thank you to my friend Mizz Carrie for this month's craft project. She sent me a Pinterest shot of the original of this project. It is meant to hang your necklaces on. My creative cohort Annemarie and I spent the afternoon learning how to use a drill and painting these things. She likes going big-so she made three. This was after we had fortified ourselves at the local brunch place with coffee, eggs, and biscuits. Crafting does not happen on an empty stomach.

Treed

Afternoon Snow

Not done

When I'm not painting strange women, I find my self painting strange trees... Well at least the bottom one is. Not quite finished with it yet... Wondering where to go next.

Start of Something New...

Winter storms are certainly conducive to painting. Hunkering down in your studio with a cup of coffee and something sweet. I can and I do spend hours there. Good thing we have plenty of leftovers or we al l would be starving. Here is something that is evolving from too many hours staring at Pinterest boards about geishas. I don't know why she is standing in the ferns...but we will see what happens.

The Eyes Don't Have It...

Not mine--hers. There is something about her right eye that is killing me. My mentor, daughter #3, says she feels like she does eyes over and over again. Not very inspiring. Perhaps an eyepatch would do...I just want to put on her rusty crown, finish up and move on. Then there is the fear that her crown will just fade into the background...Oh well. I guess she'll be hanging with me a while longer.

Into the Garden...

Well she came about when I was watching Titan A.E.on Netflix and trying to cover up a less than wonderful painting. I don't know what happened. I started out thinking I was going to paint a shadowy undefined woman with a bunch of stenciled ferns over her and then "she" showed up. I think she has a very garden of Eden air about her. I would love to place a very rustic dark wood frame about her with maybe some ivy or jungle ferns hanging from it...

After the snow...

Well I've spent the last few days pretending that it didn't snow too much and neglecting any painting to be done...Of course I have rid my studio of extraneous magazines, set up a jewelry making area and moved all supplies over there. Amazing how every jewelry project I start requires just ONE more thing. I have a lot of stuff, but apparently not enough. I also have geeked out a lot. I installed an app on my Kindle fire that allows me to show exactly what s on my mac monitor on my tablet. Good for photo reference since I don't want to pull the easel all the way over to the monitor and dump paint all over it. It's the simple joys in life...

Before this all began, I went on a road trip with My artistic friend AM and picked up these babies....

Still messing with her. Daughter #3 says I must work on her drapery...I just want to start adding weird crap around her.

 Raise your paw if you don't want to get any work done...

Uh oh...

Added cat escape route

Studio cats having nothing to do with winter weather...BTWs, my blog is blocked by the Chinese according to Daughter #2

Status Report

Cat on a cold asphalt roof...

I'm outta here.

Home again, home again, jiggety jig...

sketch book practice.

Eventually she will be done...