Today, I thought I would include a painting that I did a long time ago. The date is 1986. Where does time go? Anyway, I always thought it was one of my best animal paintings. Siamese cats are tough to do. This is Indi, my mother's cat, at the time. My mom died a few years later, but Indi lived on a long time after that. She was 19 and a half (when they get that old, the half year is very important) when she died in my arms one night. At that time, she had had kidney disease for years. She was the toughest, most intrepid cats ever born. Nothing stopped her until her body just had enough. If a cat can be a role model, Indi is mine. (When she was young, she was quite the stunt cat--so we named her Indiana Jones.)
Years later, my vet had an open house, and he told me, "There is one cat I will never forget, and that is Indi."
She was also a very gentle cat--which isn't the case with a lot of Siamese. They can be quite high strung.
The second picture includes Thunder--as always wondering what I was doing.
