I incorporated pages ripped from a donated Harry Potter book, and I ended up with this lovely tortoiseshell. Hey, I can’t control the magic.
It seems not everyone knows that tortoiseshells (and calicos) are almost always XX, and on the rare occasion that they’re not, then they are XXY (intersex). These patterns require two X chromosomes. So, a black and orange stray cat is never XY.
I think the whole idea of getting more conservative as you get older is funny. I get more chaotic every year. I’m to the point of shouting, “Shut up! I do what I want!” when YouTube tries to recommend me art tutorials. I used to love art tutorials. Now I wish I could block all art tutorials and videos about art business and marketing. NO. Art is mine. I’m reclaiming it.
I’ve been painting on cardboard due to being tired of the texture of canvas. It feels a lot freer as well, and cheaper than wood panels. I was just slopping paint on here and playing with a hot glue “stencil” when I ended up with half a cat. So I gave her another half. She’s up to some sort of deviltry.
Acrylics on cardboard
I started by drawing with an oil pastel in each hand with my eyes closed. Then I painted it with gouache.
One of my favorite things to do in my sketchbook is to splash random ink on the pages and then draw the pareidolic images I see.
Batestown is a small town in rural southwestern Pennsylvania in the fictional world of Cinder & Bone. This world is a folkloric horror setting spanning the 1980s Rust Belt. Check out my Substack (linked below) for lore and world building.
Ink on watercolor postcard
