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| Charley. Pen & Ink on mat board. 2014 |
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| Kittens. Pen & Ink on mat board. 2014 |
For the true cat aficionado! [Heh!]
All my cat illustrations are based on actual cats that [I own?] keep showing up at my house. Please don't ask how many, only know they are all fixed, unadoptable, and rather like cartoons in motion . . . I just decided to capture the cartoon part of it all.
I kept messing around with the cat illustrations, trying to find some sort of groove that felt right: loose and fun, adaptable to movement and variations in each cat, yet with a zany "Bill the Cat" quality that suits so many of their personalities. In case you don't know Bill the Cat, here he is:
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| Borrowed from the Interwebs |
[I have one cat that resembles Bill, but only on brushing day with an OD on catnip. Otherwise, he could be the star of his own animated "if cats were slightly tweaked college frat boys" series. . . which he will have.]
Anywho. Yes, I am working on developing this style a little further, and yes there will be other cats introduced, and no, they will not all be on photo mats. Some of them (like Charley) have their own mini stories on the to-do list.
In the meantime, here's a few close-ups of these first two illustrated mats:
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| Charley. Yes, RL Charley has a perennial look of worry on his mug; he's the low man on the totem pole in our group. |
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| Junior (L) and Snook (R). Snook (shown actual size, ha!) is the feline equivalent of a Mogwai. Really. Also Charley's litter mate (brother). |
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