At the sudden loss of an extremely beloved kitty companion, I found myself with the urge to draw him in his favourite cosy, peaceful sleeping positions. He was a beautiful brown tabby, but for variety when it came to painting I included orange and grey tabby colours.
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the first sketches of kitties in cosy slumber
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I recently came across scans of some unfinished cat sketches on my hard-drive from a sketchbook dated 2013(!) I still liked them and decided they ought to be finished. I first needed to excavate the sketchbook from the bottom of a storage cupboard in my parents' house, but luckily the sketches were found.
(insert photo of sketchbook)
On the same page was a finished brown tabby, and the two sketches looked like they needed to match (although it wasn't a difficult decision due to my biased love of brown tabbies). After painting, I rescanned all three together to bring them up to the same scan quality (the scans from 2013 look poor now in comparison to my current scans - likely a mixture of the scanner technology improving over the years, and possibly some slightly improved editing skills! (hopefully).
I still like the paintings from 2013, and along with some new cat illustrations would love to make some prints and stickers with them.
Here is a collection of most of them, including two of the new tabbies:
I revisited this rattie moon piece to add in a starry night sky background. I always felt the 2020 original with its plain background was missing something. Recently I've began experimenting with dark backgrounds and this felt like a great piece to try it on.
A blog post about the original painting can be found here
Honeycomb pattern experiments and a drippy, gooey, melty honeycomb heart, inspired by Valentine's Day of course :) I am planning to use these for some designs I have in mind!
Some recent completed wild fungi illustrations - a personal project I've been working on in my spare time. Fungi are fascinating! More 'shroom species have since been in the works.
I made some new wooden pin badges featuring some of my nature-inspired illustrations!
Made from responsibly sourced, fast-growing maple wood. Not only are they nice to look at but they use 20 to 24 times less energy to produce than enamel pins!
The wood grain compliments the watercolour textures really well. I'd love to expand this collection over time with more designs.
These lovely pins were made with the help of the great Zap Creatives here in the UK.
Available at amyholliday.etsy.com
