New this year is The Painted Cat 2011 Wall Calendar! Now you can get your feline fix all through the year with 12 different cats to add colour and feline fun to each month. The calendar is A4, 8 x 11 inches in size. There are 12 pages, 1 page per month, each featuring one of my cat paintings, as well as a cover and a back. It’s wire bound so it’s easy to hang on the wall and change the pages.

The paintings included are Hot Spot, Sugar Plum Fairies, Java, Mother’s Day, In The Pink, The Fishpond, Alice, Sunbathing, Doing The Washing Up, Favourite Toy, Lunchtime and The Carol Singers.

You can see all the pages in more detail, just visit me on flickr and have a look at the calendar’s flickr album.

Buy a 2011 Wall Calendar in The Painted Cat shop. Both UK and USA versions are available.

Bengals Illustrated has an article on me in their November December issue and they’ve used Maya in The Bell Ringer for the front cover. They’ve done a wonderful job of the reproduction and it’s an excellent magazine. A very enjoyable read.

This is Smug Mug. You might recognize her, I used Smug Mug as the basis of this year’s new Christmas card ‘Snowflake Kisses’.

This is a small, mixed media painting on watercolour paper. Its 6×6 inches in an 8×8 frame. 

I thought you might enjoy this photo of the boys. Ming and Charlie are having a discussion about who gets to sit in the sun on the chair. Needles to say, by the time they’d finished fighting for it, Cassie had taken the spot for herself!

This is an oil painting of Stan. Stan lived with Sandra and her family and he was quite a little character. Sandra wanted a 16×12 oil painting of Stan.

I started with a sketch of him lying on the floor, looking playfully up at us from an upside down position. A typical mischievous kitten and a real sweetie!

Stan is coming along nicely and as you can see from the photo, I’ve got him onto the canvas board and all the main shapes are there. Now it’s a slow process of building him up and adding colour and detail. This is the fun part of the painting, but slow because it means waiting for each layer of oil to dry before the next one can go on.

And here is the finished painting of Stan on the easel, complete with his frame.

And this is a close up detail of the painting.