Category: Watercolor Art

Too Many Cats

Is it really possible to have too many cats? What’s line between cat lover and cat hoarder?

I believe every artwork tells a story and Here is the story behind this piece.
I love cats. I established a mandatory limit of 4 because that’s all my budget can deal with – otherwise I would definitely end up with too many cats because I want to give every unwanted cat, especially the ones considered “unadoptable” a furever home.

I use high quality acrylic watercolor, gouache, ink, charcoal on all my artworks.

Measurements : 5 x 7 inches painted directly on printed photo image mounted on heavy mat board.
Helmuth was not a team player on the bowling team

Everyone wanted to get screaming, intimating , black cat head bowling balls….. except Helmuth. He got the Hello Kitty of cat head bowling balls. Definitely not scary or intimidating.

Materials used:
vintage photo mounted on canvas panel painted with acrylics, ink and gouche.

Size : 9 inches by 12 inches.
Cat Sisters It Will Be Better Watercolor and Gouache

One cat sister is telling the other that it will be better. Time heals everything you know.
8×10 acrylic, watercolor, gouache, ink on heavy mat board.
1 inch black border around piece for easy framing.

Materials used:

gouache, watercolor, acrylic, and ink on heavy mat board

Contact me if you’d like to own the Cat Sisters
Elizabeth was a Rotten Apple (Yes she was) original watercolor

This is another one done on a page from Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue.” It’s been the most useful painting ground ! This is Elizabeth, she’s a rotten apple.
6×9 inches watercolor and ink.

Contact me at 3@3amgallery.com if you’d like to purchase. 🙂
Kitties Finding Forever Homes

I’m so happy. My friend Shiva adopted a new kitty and he donated a painting I did about rescued cats.
What I am working on right now

~~I’ve pretty much made up my mind I am leaving Ebay~~. I have made up my mind I am only going to sell $10 and under paintings on Ebay.

It was a great place to sell art and I have met some of the coolest people, but unless you spend a lot of money on different types of listings you aren’t favored in search results anymore, and the type of buyer that just wants the lowest price that they are now attracting is just making it a place I can’t make a living anymore. Time to diversify.

I had a woman recently write me and offer to take 2 paintings off my hands for the price of one. Another one got her art and then her payment bounced and she is basically refusing to make it good. She got her art and she pointed out to me, I can paint more right??? It’s like poof, more paintings….it’s not like I am really out anything like you know, someone that owns a store with merchandise. I can make more. Ugh …. people….

Okay enough kvetching. Here is what I am working on (poof! More art) today.
None of these pieces I am sharing below are done.
Starting from the left – 2 kitties “It Will Be Better” – needs more layers of paint.
Next is “Artist’s Ideas” – I haven’t decided if I am doing this in watercolor or acrylic or oil yet.
Then, close up of a goat girl – she’s part of a much larger piece this is an ACEO (2.5×3.5 inches)
Next row – The Sneeze ACEO
and Anger ACEO
Couldn’t Be Happy Even if She Were Riding a Unicorn with Bluebirds of Happiness Flying out of its Butt

Finished this 8 x10 watercolor painting.
First let me cover what this painting is NOT about based on some of the emails I’ve been getting.
It is not about depression or anyone that is depressed. I thought of this painting, I did this painting and no one more than me knows the intention of this painting.
It is about people who choose to not embrace the things they have and only lament the things they don’t have.
I don’t make fun of people struggling with anything. I have a very dark sense of humor but not a cruel one. Depression isn’t funny.
This painting is about the people who choose to be the negative, unappreciative asshats of the world, not anyone that struggles with depression. I have nothing but admiration and compassion for anyone fighting that demon.
We cool now? Good. I like it when we’re cool. If you want to buy this piece, I am sorry it is sold but you can get something similar as a commission for $50.

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She Knew Every Day She Could Count on Being Yelled At By Him- abstract watercolor 5×7

[update] this piece was purchased and will be part of a silent auction to raise awareness for domestic violence.

I wish I would have know the intention – I would have totally donated it!

I love Reddit. It’s one my fave places on the Internet. I wind up reading Reddit/Relationships – I know a lot of trolling goes on there but some legit sharing too. I read one very detailed and long post from a woman telling about her life with a verbally abusive man. The yelling and tantrums, just wow.

People were commenting to her, why don’t you just leave? She wasn’t in a position to do that financially. She had no job, no support systems, he’d driven off all her friends long ago, no car,no savings of her own he didn’t have access to, and she had a young child to think about. She also feared him because he said he’d disappear with their child on the first visitation. She said he was so charming when wanted to be, he would indeed fool a judge into visitation.

The most shocking part of the entire post I read, was the number of other women in a similar situation. They didn’t have physical bruises but they were verbally abused frequently by the person that was supposed to love them.
Prayers for Humans Outsider Art

I still think zombies are funny. I am not sure why the dead are so horrifying to some. I was flipping around on Netflix and saw some ghost hunter show. It struck me how funny it is they say “Can you move something?” or ask the ghost to do some sort of simplistic trick to show they are there like they suppose people become idiots after death. “Can you tell me my name?”
I have no idea if anything happens after we die any more than you do, but if it does, I doubt we become morons who can only do simple parlor tricks.

The technique used is hand painted with watercolor and inks on a vintage book page from a children’s hymn book from 1950. It was originally titled, “Prayers and Hymns.” Now it reads, “Prayers for Humans” and little zombie children are hoping their prayers get answered!
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Dimensions are approx. 5″ x 8″.

Price is $20 with free shipping inside the US.

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