Category: cats

  • Tiger look out

    Tiger, the mighty hunter, the largest cat in the world, you need to look out. You need to use your wits to stay alive. You always have, but now it’s even more important, with threats coming from every direction by humans who are overrunning your habitat. You are one of the most beautiful animals that…

  • Tiger’s eye

    Yesterday was Global Tiger Day, and I decided to do a watercolor  painting of a tiger and then  quickly sold it. But I discovered that I am really enjoying painting tigers! This morning, I found myself wondering how little of a tiger I could paint and still find myself looking at a tiger. Then I started noticing the…

  • World Tiger Day

    July 29th is World Tiger Day. Tigers are the largest of the cat nation. They are endangered every where mostly because of loss of habitat. It is scary to think of how many tigers were once shot for sport. There are few creatures on earth as beautiful as these intelligent mysterious cats. This painting is…

  • In the garden

    Painted a little garden scene this morning, inspired by all the colors in my garden and all of the amazing flowers you can see all over Seattle. This is a little postcard that someone is going to get in the mail. Decisions, decisions. This painting is not for sale.

  • 21 – Enza, my cat poses again

    I thought I would take a picture of Enza posing, and draw from it later, but she wouldn’t cooperate. She wanted me to sketch her live or forget it. Every time I lifted my phone to snap a picture, she moved. So I settled into the sketch, marveling at how she had all of her…