Pink cat under a pink tree

Recently, my dear art friend Sheila of Orange Esmeralda fame, shared a pink cat she drew.  It was adorable and got me thinking (something I do on occasion).  Some of you are probably aware that Alison, aka Craftytrog's Arty Adventures, is our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  Her theme is Geometric Shapes.  That means today I am paying homage to Alison's theme AND Sheila's adorable pink cat.

I call this one pink cat under a pink tree.


If the background looks vaguely familiar, it's because it was part of my September Second Thursday Tutorial.  At the time, I had no idea how handy it would come in as a background to this pink tree.


The lighting was horrible, and my drawing is a bit bad,

OK, really bad when I tried to add whiskers, but I still am happy with this adorable pink cat.

For this page, which is 110 lb. cardstock, I began by adding dye inks to the stamp I made in September.  Then I added lots and lots and lots (actually, too many, I fear) of pink foam triangles.  These triangles were easy to cut from sheets of foam using my guillotine cutter.  They didn't want to be glued together, though, and I ended up using three different glues in order to get them to stick together and to the cardstock.   The cat was drawn on a piece of printer/copier paper, then colored and cut out.  Obviously, my main geometric shape is the triangle, and the cat has a circle head, triangle ears, and oval body.  The background is sort of wonky squares within squares.

Thanks for visiting, thanks for your continued support, and thanks to Alison for her inspiring geometric shapes this month.  I hope to see you at Art Journal Journey, too.  We'd love to have you join us.