Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: cats

  • Day 5 – Shades of Enza

    Not everyone is lucky enough to have a cat that poses for paintings. Enza, who is a tortie (the first painting) will pose for me anytime. Once I have her sketched in, I have the choice to paint her as she appears, or change her color. They are all sold. These tiny paintings are called…

  • Merry Christmas silly card

    So I responded to a silly Christmas card challenge. “Send me a Christmas card” he said, and the only rules are the words “Buddy Holly” have to be on the card. So, the left side of my brain says “I don’t want to have anything to do with Buddy Holly on a Christmas card” and…

  • And back to Enza!

    I have been painting a lot of postcards lately because of the mail art swaps I have been doing and Enza is the one cat I have that actually enjoys modelling. In the first painting, she poses regally on her red throne. In the second, I roughed her fur up a little to make her…

  • Fun with Marbling – cats

    I took a paper marbling workshop with Liz Walker. I immediately got all kinds of ideas about what I was going to do with some paintings that I had already done. The workshop was two days long, and Liz promised us that we’d get messy. I walked into a room that was completely covered with…

  • Enza dreams

    I was needing inspiration, so Enza came over and took the chair next to me. She is a thirteen year old tortoiseshell former feral cat that took over our lives about 13 years ago. This morning, I was able to sketch her twice for some small quick paintings, this is the first. I experimented using…