Here’s today’s cartoon. Surely all cats make these resolutions.
Nib and ink and then just painted with watered coloured inks. I wrote the text freehand, but think I still need to improve my handwriting to get away with that for much longer. I used the new inks I got for Christmas, so lots of terra cotta and yellow. The terra cotta ink is very odd – it is sort of gooey and I need to shake it a lot. It doesn’t seem to blend as well as the other colours, but I’m not sure why.
It was Sarah’s birthday this week, so I drew her this card.
Nib, ink and coloured with inks, which annoyingly smudged with the black ink that hadn’t quite dried yet. When will I learn to be more patient?!
The cat is meant to be swiping at the lower bird, but I think just looks alarmed, which sorta works, I guess.
I’ve bought some new colours of ink and really wanted to play with them.
I didn’t spend any time working on the joke, but had fun with Red, Yellow, Ochre in addition to the green, blue and black I had already.
It’s also very nice to be back drawing, having spent a lot of time on the Christmas cards recently.