Quick draw McGraw

You know how I am a bit of a yes-girl?  Well, more of a yes, please actually (because I was brought up to be polite). Well, offer me an opportunity to partake of something interesting, pleasurable, educational, creative, edible.... and I'll grab it.

So, when I was chatting online with Cameron and she asked me to join her in working through Carla Sonheim'sDrawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun (Lab (Quarry Books)) I agreed wholeheartedly... Then got so busy that I couldn't find the time to join in...

Not very 'completing' is it? That's my word of the year by the way.

So, Week 3 arrived and a project to draw your pet in motion in seconds. Come on, I says to myself. Even the most time-starved artist could take a nibble of this one.

And so, with two cats being suitably active (I caught them just before mealtimes when they follow me around like a shadow) I stalked their every move - and believe me there are a lot of them when food is on the cards. It's not so easy drawing a moving beast, but once you figure out that there are kind of three balls in decreasing sizes from rump to head, then it becomes easier.

Note the expressions of disgust on those faces as they cannot understand what is stopping me from moving  to the food cupboard and bringing out their dinner.

I really should go and feed them now...