Category Archives: Cat stories

#Caturday Archives: 34

This #Caturday Saturday I’ve gone back almost 11 years to January 2015 and some pen and pencil sketches I made of the late, great Bobbit, a rather curmudgeonly calico cat.

#Caturday Archives: 33

I was doing a lot of digital drawings of the 5-year old SpartaPuss back in December 2014. I was using a free Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet. I really enjoyed it for some time, it was very convenient, it slipped into a small bag, no faff.

#Caturday: Two Cats And A Horse

There’s an Open Weekend at Swansea Print Workshop coming up (see below) and I’m sorting out some of my work to put on sale. I’ve been doing some little linocut prints onto postcards so I’ll pop these into small frames and sell them at relatively low prices. They are all embellished with chine collé, usingContinue reading “#Caturday: Two Cats And A Horse”

#Caturday: Winter Window

It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here that little block I cut last week, printed in black with a touch of gold foil chine collé highlighting the moon. The foil is from sweets (candies); there are fewer manufacturers making them these days, I find them in upmarket retailers and traditional old-fashioned sweet shops.

The Cornflour Trick!

I’ve seen this trick on social media, using cornflour to take a look at a carved lino block, to see if it’s ready or needs more cutting. This is the first time I’ve tried it and it works! Yeah! I can see one or two bits on the cat block where I might do aContinue reading “The Cornflour Trick!”

Winter Cat

I’ve got a community arts teaching session coming up this week, we’ll be doing Xmas / Winter-themed lino cuts. I’m getting one prepared in advance, I’ve drawn the design onto a piece of traditional grey lino, ready to cut. This traditional material is made from linseed oil, pine resin and wood flour onto a juteContinue reading “Winter Cat”

#Caturday Archives: 32

It seems I was doing a lot of digital drawings of SpartaPuss back in December 2014. She’s a five year old here. I’ve drawn her with a free Markers app onto my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet. I liked that app very much but there came a point where I lost interest in digital drawingContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 32”

#Caturday Saturday

I carried on with this little cat piece, using  Derwent Aquatone watercolour sticks onto a heavy watercolour paper with Escoda Versátil brushes. The cat shapes are from a stencil I cut of our little Bill the rescue cat some time ago. This is the first thing I’ve done with the Aquatone sticks and I’m getting usedContinue reading “#Caturday Saturday”

#Caturday Archives: 31

December 2014 was a month of digitally drawn cats. Here’s Sparta Puss, aged 5 drawn with a free Markers app onto my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet. I liked that app, it helped my drawings to be very free.