Thunder

Thunder

Thunder in Charcoal

Princess

This is my first attempt at Princess--the mean cat at the barn that just loves me.  The picture does make her look a little mean.  She got so mad at me, yesterday, when I wouldn't sit with her that she kept swatting my leg when I would walk by.  

She comes when I call her, all the time.  Well, yesterday I was riding in the back of the property and as I was coming back, she and Tommy were hanging out by the outdoor arena.  As I rode towards them, I called Princess, and she trotted over to us.  She is hesitant to come close to Cole, because he has chased her before.  As I passed her, I called her and Tommy, and she and Tommy both trotted after us to our barn.  It was really cute.

That's how she is.  She can be so endearing and then turns into a tyrant.

Thunder

Thunder personally helped me with this one--he sat on it when I was drawing it.

My First Attempt at Sketching in Years

My first attempt had to be Thunder, of course.  Hopefully, it will be the first of many as I try to bring my artistic skills up to speed.  They have been long neglected--for many years.

Indi

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.