Anything Is Possible.

I have been working on a series of paintings based on the antics of my cat Ambrose aka Bro.  The first painting (below) I did ages ago.  Bro like all male cats likes to wander, and I imagined that perhaps he was doing the big OE. (Overseas experience that is a rite of passage for many young kiwis and Aussies.)  Last week it rained a lot and the garden was under water.  One day I looked out the window and there was Bro with the cat from a couple of houses away (they pretend they don’t like each other!).  They were sitting in about 3 inches of water patting at the drowning plants!  It was so funny.

Nordic Ambrose

We are lead to believe that cats don't like water, er umm somebody didn’t tell these two!  As labels, set patterns of behaviour are limiting. If cats want to surf, why not.  So, here is Prince Ambrose in Hawaii surfing with a mate! 

As always on a Friday I am linking the above with Eva and Kirsten at Paint Party Friday.

For December’s Mix It Monthly hosted by Conny of PiaRom Art Blog fame my entry is below, the prompt colours are red, green and yellow and the subject owls.  I had to enter because I adore owls.  So out came my stash of watercolour scraps and in no time I had collage this journal page.

Owls

I love owls, I love drawing them and painting them.  Although I haven’t done any lately my love was rekindled last week when I discovered a blog with the most amazing whimsical owls ever, very inspiring. 

When I saw that the prompt for Illustration Friday was ‘wild’, I couldn’t help myself.  Also I had to do a drawing for my book.  Here is Barnaby with the key to the Wise Man’s secret library.

I had some other drawings in black ink and decided to test drive some inks I brought well over a year ago, lol!  They are Sennelier – shellac based ink that is very transparent.

Oh, I love, love them.  You can’t see it in the scan but the finish is like satin.

So thank you to Juliette for reminding me of how lovely owls are.

On Sundays from now on I am going to nominate the most inspiring blog I discover during the week and of course Juliette is this weeks.  Her web site is (http://juliettecrane.com)

Here is one of her whimsy owls, she also does courses on how to paint and draw whimsy. Isn’t it gorgeous!

Linking to Sunday Sketches and Illustration Friday.