Night Dancing lino print on Folksy

Happy to spot my 'Night Dancing' lino print on Folksy's Favourites list at the moment.  I love the idea  of pets getting up to things as we sleep (and we all know that they do!) and lets hope it is just a bit of harmless dancing...
It is fun printing this one too as I so rarely use blocks of tone in my lino prints, so a good dramatic area of black is good to see when you peel back the paper from the block.

Check out what else is on the Folksy list here (and take a look quickly if you want to see my kitties there as who knows when the Folksy team will find some new favourites!)---> FOLKSY FAVOURITES

New prints on Folksy

 Night Dancing

I spent a happy ENTIRE day playing on my computer and making pictures of pictures...
This now means that there are a whole flurry of new lino prints listed in my Folksy shop - huzzah!!

Above are 'Scruffy Bird on a Garden Urn' and 'Nature Guide - British Isles'

I'm sure I've forgotten to do a lino print of a very important animal, so am aiming to do one of everything, but seem to often get stuck on the bird section....oh well....

pets...

I'm enjoying doing a whole series of pictures of really not very cute pets, mostly just sketches but there is surely a place in the world for pictures of revolting dogs, cats up to mischief and problem hamsters.

The reality of keeping animals in my experience is that they are sweet and fluffy for a couple of weeks and then start working on a variety of ways of making themselves slightly repulsive (usually involving pooing somewhere very unsuitable or developing a curious medical problem which involves endless nighttime tending - rather like small children really).

I've already done a print called 'Malodorous Animals', focusing on the smellier species on the planet, which makes me laugh quietly to myself, but I suspect will never be a big seller - now I'm moving onto the pets and it is keeping me happily amused this week when I really should be getting ready for the glorious summer that is now finally within touching distance...

plotting...

Lovely morning spent digging things up in the searing heat, listening to grasshoppers chirping and ladybirds bustling about.  Then had a sudden huge need for ice-lollies, so had to leave...

I've spent the rest of today mucking out my studio ( a regular task for all artists surely? ).  This was a little more urgent today as a cat managed to leap through the impossibly high window, knock over the weedy plant specimen on my desk which dominoed into the binoculars, fish mobile, toy baby changing kit, japanese doll and clean pile of washing that had found a home on my chair (where HAD all these things come from???)...everything covered with soil, cat hairs and a few claw marks where the sneaky feline had obviously been scrabbling amongst the chaos...

Good job I've been working on the downstairs table recently because the upstairs one was in such a mess - therefore no real work involved in cat crisis - phew!

Will be getting my own back however, as soon as the culprit is identified from the large amount of evidence left behind...

cats

when I was a student I would spend a lot of time reading dictionaries and drawing cats - it's always good to combine your interests don't you think...