Contest Draw Your Cat To Win Beautiful Jewelry!

[Lari]

Entry - Lelia
Medium - colored pencil on cheap school paper

I traced it off this picture to get the shape right.

Not sure it's really that much better than my not an entry from earlier in the thread, but it was fun to do.

 

[neely]

I don't currently sell anywhere beyond a little art gallery/shop place in my tiny Yorkshire market town. I'm hoping my health will get stable enough for me to start online selling at some point though

I don't think I'll be back home in time to whip up a charcoal drawing which is the medium I prefer. However, I just wanted to tell you how wonderfully brilliant the bracelets are and I would definitely buy one in the future if you start selling them on-line.

 

[Draco]

its going to be hard to choose a winner.. all the drawings are amazing in their own ways.. and in each one I can see the care and love the artists has for their cats!

 

[AbbysMom]

Some nice entries on here!

 

[Columbine]

Come on guys - just a few days left to enter I'm loving all the artwork I'm seeing here, and I'm in awe of you all I can't draw to save my life!

 

[Norachan]

I'm working on it! I've done a few sketches, just need to take some photos and upload them now.

 

[Furballsmom]

I'm loving all the artwork I'm seeing here, and I'm in awe of you all I can't draw to save my life!

 

[PushPurrCatPaws]

I wasn't going to enter this contest but today I thought I'd give it a go!

There were several problems, however:
- I'm not an artist & only have an inkling of what I should be doing,
- DH did not feel like babysitting Milly while I was trying to do this,
- Milly gets very wild and pokes her nose and paws into everything whenever I try to do some kind of project - it never fails that she gets her pawprints all over anything I work on, and traipses all over the house tracking said pawprints. Today was no exception, and so I was unable to finish, *throw up hands*



About 3- 1/2 years ago after my last cat passed away, I thought I'd try to "do some art", though I really have no experience or any real clue. I bought some water soluble oil pastels and some pastel paper, and some books... but I never got around to messing with the pastels. I think I was still grieving for my cat and would much rather have written in my journal at the time.

Anyway, I thought I'd dig the pastels out today (the box was dusty!), and try to go for it, cold turkey.

Milly had to get her pawprints across the wet paper as it was drying, of course.
(Her paws were hot pink for a few minutes, but they cleaned up easily.)


SUBMISSION - water soluble pastels, using fingers and brushes and water, on Canson pastel paper

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The reference photo:

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[Columbine]

That is just lovely You clearly have a hidden talent for this

 

[PushPurrCatPaws]

Milly looks MUCH better in the photo.

But that is nice of you to say so, Columbine.

 

[Benjamin Franklin (Benji)]

SUBMISSION - Benji - Done on a drawing software with the Wacom Intuos Draw tablet

To be honest it’s so rough and I could have done a lot better but it’s all about the fun, right? Excited to see everyone else’s submissions

 

[Norachan]

That's really nice PushPurrCatPaws Love that hot pink and the little paw prints really make it special.

That's a nice one of Benji Benjamin Franklin (Benji) He looks like he's about to dash off and chase something.

 

[surya]

SUBMISSION


This is my cat Felix AKA Angel
Pencil and Watercolor

 

[Norachan]

Submission.

Chicken.
Medium: Chalk pastels on paper.

 

[Norachan]

Not a submission, just a few sketches that turned out not so bad.

Button Moon. Pencil on paper.

Forest Cat. Pencil on paper.

Detail of the pastel drawing of Chicken, taken without the flash so it looks darker.

 

[PushPurrCatPaws]

That's really nice PushPurrCatPaws Love that hot pink and the little paw prints really make it special.
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Thanks, Norachan , but I think Mildred Rose will never forgive me for giving her an ear that looks like it belongs to a misplaced Martian visiting Titan! It's obvious I'm a beginner. But that's okay. Beginnings are a part of living!

 

[surya]

This is a really fun thread. I wouldn't normally put my messy less accomplished sketch up for the world to see, but bribe me with a chance to win a pretty bracelet and I'm searching for the art supplies. It would be fun to have a thread to continue doing this on a regular basis and see how we improve.

 

[Anne]

This is going to be a super hard vote, I can see that.

Two more days for submissions!

 

[mservant]

Even more fabulous entries - this is wonderful. Loving coming here to look through the latest additions.

Loving the idea of Milly's hot pink paws PushPurrCatPaws .

 

[PMousse]

ENTRY - Ashton the Calico.

Never good at drawing, and haven't done much drawing since, like, high school. But this doodling one evening while listening to a seminar was fun, although I don't think Ashton approves...