Exciting news first! My new Instagram logo is done!
My graphic designer friend Jacquie designed it for me, and I love how colorful, playful, and clean it is. Click on my Instagram link to check out my Highlight Covers too (and see screenshot below)! I’m so pleased to have a logo now.
Jacquie created tags for me to put it on the backs of my rocks as well (although I use my Facebook group’s tag for the rocks I hide here in Illinois… I need to think about that some more. Do I want to add my logo, too?). Here’s the special tag for the Sip & Purr Cat Cafe rocks.
On to painted rocks! Bobbi’s birthday was yesterday, so I painted her two rocks inspired by The Princess Bride. I was very happy the inspo pics didn’t have features on their faces – I struggle painting humans as it is!
I started working on batches of cats for hiding here and for donating to Sip & Purr Cat Café. I draw and paint ten at a time, modeling some off of Sip & Purr cats, then I set those aside and hide half here. This way I can still hide while I work on my donation rocks for them. My goal is to paint 50 rocks to donate. As of publishing date, I have 25.
I hid five of these on my Monday walk.
Sip & Purr has an old TV that they made into a cat bed, and it’s so cute, I had to paint it! The exciting thing about this rock is that I didn’t copy anything – I just looked at the image of the TV on their Instagram and drew it. That’s a big deal for me – I am usually copying an image. (I mean, I still was, but it was a picture that I did my own interpretation of.)
More Sip & Purr rocks. The middle rock is their logo. The way to fix mistakes when painting is to cover your booboo with more paint, but I couldn’t do that here because of the unique background. I tried a few single line drawings that I had to erase with isopropyl alcohol, then let dry and draw on top of. Long story long, I am pleased I was able to draw these versions in one shot. I think I can only do single line drawings when I can use pencil to sketch it out (you can’t on these backgrounds – it won’t erase).
Another batch! Half for Sip & Purr, half hid on my Tuesday walk.
Ha, I have a shirt that says this, and wore it on Monday and it inspired me to paint this. I hid this on my Wednesday RUN! Yes, I did a run/walk, yay yay yay!
I saw an ad for a t-shirt printing company that had something similar to this and I had to put it on a rock! I will hide this today.
Sip & Purr really liked the “cats on a date” rock I painted (that was the rock they saw in my Facebook group that inspired them to reach out to me!), so I painted four for them. I am still trying to figure out the best way to outline black cats. It’s a struggle.
And finally, five more cats for Sip & Purr. I was going to do a batch of ten but was too lazy to go into the basement and get more rocks. I used a finer pen on their faces and really like how they turned out!
Love them all! Can’t wait to hear what Sip & Purr says!!
Thank you! I am so excited for them to get them! They have a lot of other cool merch – I hope people want to buy them!
I love your new logo! You are so profesh now. 🙂
The cats on a date in the bottom left look like Eloise and Lila! Look at them, bein’ all cute. 🙂
Thank you!
You are right, it does! That could be them out on the patio, enjoying some wet food!
Oh, that is so cool that you now have tags so people can find you on IG!!
Yeah! I just have to decide if I want to add them along with my group’s Facebook tag… I think that will get too confusing for people.
I love all of these! Sip & Purr is lucky to have you!
And I need to follow you so I can send the fun rocks and cat drawings I see on IG to you for inspiration. 😉
Thank you! I hope they like them all!
Yes, send them my way! I liked the one you sent yesterday!