A Child and Two Leopards

 The digital fun continues. These and drawing are What I Have Time For. Of course now I can't do it I yearn for a massive studio full of massive serious Frank Auerbach type Serious Oil Paintings proving how involved I am with my vision and that I am a Serious Artist. But these are fun too and scratch the itch.

Deeply Stupid Leopards

I wanted to get the expression my cat Joyce gets when she's in the middle of washing and suddenly looks like she thinks she's remembered something important. Also, this is what a monkeycat looks like if you haven't seen one before.





Some of these drawings I am reproducing tiny as I think they're a bit rubbish but for some reason don't want to leave them out completely.





Since I've been working in a shop, I try to make quick things count more. It feels like it matters to maintain a flow. It's partly to try to overcome my procrastination.





I'd like to do some proper leopardish paintings soon. That involve acrylic and even gouache. And even colours.

Pardaddendum

No wonder the last post felt small... I forgot these two stunning additions to the 'pard canon.

Leopards

I return, rubbishly, to clouded leopards. Remember my last leopard phase?





Now, perhaps a 'natural' part of me wants to draw fairly solid 'real' leopards, just with subtle grunewald twists, supple subtle and elegant.

But I'm fighting with myself to make something simpler. Whether I can make anything simpler that has any point to it, is funny, or inventive, or joyful, or the basis for something else, I don't know.

Remember Cenapards? I quite liked them the first time.





I often feel like my drawing is a very private experiment. I don't always come up with results that have that perfect alchemy that I'd want all my drawings to have, but sometimes I'm sufficiently interested by the results to blog them anyway... I probably shouldn't. I should probably only blog 100% safe completed masterpieces once every six years.





Perhaps with some of these I'm fighting to put some things together that haven't quite come together, but they will eventually.





However it shouldn't always have to be a struggle, so maybe I should embed myself in a comfort zone next time.





Though there is a little bit of trying to figure out the essence of the leopard attraction here.

Coy Leopards and Sad Lions looking for something

Well I been painting my little bottom off. But paintings are at a state of near incompletion. I've also drawn some leopards, lions and such, foraging for a way through this imagery towards some finished expression.





I like clouded leopards.



Here are some coy ones.











Poor Shawn is hilariously concussed!





Some people miss the subtlety and pathos in wrestling.





I've been studying lion statues from various cultures. There are some doozies on Flickr.







Also been looking at Edwardian postcards with photographs of children quite a lot. Always liked these. Always felt there was something to be done with them, or found in them.



Then there was this stocky chubby little personification of the praying lion theme...





And this perhaps slightly less obscure version of last week's spasmodic scribbletasms:





Oh yes, and I now have an ogre on ebay:





That's all.