Blue cats, a second sketchbook flip-through

And ICYMI three coloring books

I’ve been thinking of the ways we can cultivate our own aliveness and how creativity (viewing it, making it etc) helps us hear our own inner voice and humanity. In an age of a continuous firehose torrent of marketing, misinformation and disinformation we try to stay in touch with our inner selves so we can know what's true, to know our own minds and what we want or need in order to be fully human.

We cultivate our own aliveness via reading novels, listening to music, doodling, sewing, writing, gardening, knitting, cooking and many other creative activities.

One morning during breakfast in my sketchbook I drew a cat drawing a “cave painting” of a cat playing with yarn.

Then another morning with my blue fountain pen ink I drew a cat playing with yarn in a larger sketchbook.

The finished drawing begged to be on a big 28 ounce soup mug… which is available via this link on my Zazzle shop. Here are two photos of it…

… I had such fun making the yarn tangle go all the way around the mug-bowl and I'm enjoying the visual pun/nod to the old fashioned blue willow china patterns - so I wanted to show you both sides of it!

I'm still working towards a printed (and ebook) reproduction of my entire sketchbook that I've been sharing with you this year. You can see the first sketchbook flip-through here. 👇

And here's a second flip-through of the same sketchbook. 👇

If you prefer YouTube 👇

Since there are a number of new subscribers (welcome!!) here’s a quote I have thumbtacked to my studio wall which hopefully explains a bit of why I want to give my subscriber-community artistic things that are encouraging the cultivation of our humanity.

Towards that end here are three coloring books that can be downloaded and printed for your creative coloring pleasure!

Here's a dragon…

And hedgehogs…

Plus a thank you for being here coloring and folding downloadable printable book!

Thank you all for being here!! Your encouragement, support and patronage is much appreciated!!! 💚💚