Girl and Cats Sketches

 This week's charcoal pencil sketches in my sketchbook on textured paper, again inspired by Pinterest photos. I'm going to have to dig out mine and my mom's old photos and start sketching them. When I get on Pinterest to find a photo that inspires me I wind up doing more looking than sketching! It's very addictive, and I LOVE looking at old vintage photos!

I've been sketching women with huge bows in their hair, which I love, but I came across this photo of a cat with two bows on its head. So cute! I had to try sketching her/him! I kind of mess up the face this time, but I decided to leave it instead of trying to erase it and do it over. Charcoal pencil is not easy to erase and I usually make a bigger mess by trying it. I'm just going to try sketching it again and see if I can do better. Next time I'll do the face first instead of the whole cat!

I haven't tried to draw that many cats, and I definitely need a lot more practice, but she/he taught me a lot and I'm happy that I did as well as I did. Not going for perfect here!

I loved this photo of the half faces, and I did better on the cat's face in this one, I think. I did, however, mess up the woman's hand and got it way too small. I lost my focus, I guess. 

No problem! I just cropped it off in the picture below, and I like it much better without the hand anyway.

I love the cropped version and would love to paint it on a small square canvas at some point, or print it off and use it in a journal or mixed media piece. I might do one of me and my little Pekingese dog in a similar pose.

Both of these were so much fun to practice on, and I look forward to doing more, but I really need to finish up my paper clay class, two to finish sculpting, and a few to paint, and I need to work on the memory book I was gifted. One question a week doesn't seem like much to write about, but some of the questions require longer answers than others, plus when I start writing I don't know when to quit, and that requires much revision. I'm not a big talker verbally, but writing unleashes a whole other side of me!

I don't have enough piled up to do! I'm needing to make some pot holders, which I could buy, but they, like everything else have gotten so high priced it's ridiculous. I have the loom, but I can't decide whether to order cotton loops or use up some of my cotton yarn. We'll see, I guess.

But it's all good! It keeps my mind, if not my body, exercised and working, and trust me, at seventy-three my mind needs all the exercise it can get!

Take care, stay well, and keep doing what you love! Thanks for visiting! 💓