Pet portraits SALE! LOVE!

I do love drawing someone's loved pet, either it be a dog, cat, hedgehog or the cutest little pig. All animals are wonderful to draw and the most fun is to bring out that special trait from their personality. Or have the pet be in a another place and space in the drawing. One thing I always wished for but never gotten the chance to do is to draw animals in people's clothing. 

I've been somewhat close, drawing cats in superhero capes and in roller-skates. 

During the rest of July I will draw your beloved pets with clothes, or without, in space, 

in the wild, as a lion. Just the way you want it. 

I'm reducing the price from $200 USD to $130 USD throughout the entire month in my Etsy shop. 

Here are examples of commissioned drawings:

Thank you everyone for your love and support! 

/Carolina

Cat Faces!

 Recognize this face from my blog banner? it's originally a part of an older illustration of mine. One I might show you in the future, as for now I'm not sure if I want to use it for something else or not. I'm thinking of making these below into cards for the shop, what do you think?

 I made some samples just to try it out, in raspberry pink.

Wishing you a great weekend!

/Carolina

WIP: Between sisters

I'm working on a new drawing for the upcoming exhibition I'm having with my sister this fall. This is a work in progress, digital drawing from a photo I took earlier this month when visiting my family. See previous post if you're curious!

While mommy is working, baby is sunbathing.

Photo of the day:

Wishing you a great midsummer's eve!

/Carolina

The Superhero Cat!

He's here again! 

He's gained some weight since last time he showed up but then again I always had a love for fat cats.

In progress...from a charcoal drawing to some color editing in photoshop.

This illustration and also Augustus the flying cat (link above) will be in shop soon!

The Bubble Crown deluxe....

  Let me introduce a new version of the Bubble Crown; 

Use it twisted at the front or turn it around for that new lace detail! 

These 2 are added to shop now and more will come!

Let me tell you, these were so much fun to make and I have more coming up very soon.

But in the meanwhile I just thought I show you this:

                                

Excuse the small mobile video version (you can view it bigger), but isn't she the cutest?!

Jellyfish horror!

Oh yes, you should see my back. I've got long burn marks after a jelly fish I came upon when bathing while in Spain. The longest mark most be approximately 6 cm and 3 cm wide. It don't hurt anymore just have an awful itching and I'm doing my best not to scratch it all up. Still a week after it's as red as it was when I first got burned! I wonder if they really will become permanent scars? Hope not!

That week was weird. Really. Also. Got stuck in an elevator half way down with no air conditioning working and my mum got all panicked. We were stuck there about 15 min with no mobile connection. The alarm signal that went to some sort of alarm center didn't work well. We were rescued by some passer byers and some of the personal that worked in the store. Phew....

Later that week we got into a parking lot accident, small but still! 

I'm home now and nothing terrible has happened YET (knock on wood). 

Between those terrible moments there were fun and exploration as well. We went up between the mountains to a small village where a group of artists had their workshops and small coffee bars. They worked in these small and cool houses nestled in the mountain terrain. A lot of these artists worked with recycled materials and turned it into sculptures and art. 

I had a lot of time to cuddle with the latest babies in the nest. Meet Bobby and Linda!

Valentino aka. Tjockis is the biggest and cutest cat piglet in the house!

Take care dear ones!

/Carolina

Giveaway ending

I'm back from my mini vacation in Spain and everything is back to balance again. I felt it was perfect to have a giveaway while I was away - Thank you all who participated in the giveaway this time around!

This is how it turned out:

This time I let Sau choose a winner but it was not as easy as I thought so I had to put some catnip candy in the vase to even make her interested in the happening. Maybe she felt a sort of connection to the winner as she chose the paper with number 6 -Puppy Love Princess!

Thanks to everyone, I wish you all wonderful week!
/Carolina

ps. I'm posting a preview of a new mini illustration necklace before listing to shop in the next couple of days so be sure to come back and check it out.

Preparing

Sau loves to get her portrait made in paint and also to be photographed.

Tomorrow I'll be taking her for a check up to the veterinary. I'm not looking forward to it. She's really hard to get in the box, it's a struggle of the strongest mind. She just have to mjaauuu! really loud and I loose. I can't stand see her distressed. Oh I'm such a mom, a nervous easy to manipulate mom. 

The hunt for the yarn ball is on! IF: Toy

Will be in the exhibition next saturday!

A moment of stillness in chaos

After tearing and shredding plenty of yarn and paper ball to bits and pieces she takes a well earned moment to collect herself for another session of chaos later on, preferably at night when everyone else tries to sleep.

Just another day in the life of Sau - my darling cat.

Behind my creative soul......

is a cat. And we wish you a happy new creative year!

Whazz up? I'm just lying here feeling utterly full from all the yummie christmas food they've fed me, but it's good.

I hope they never buy one of those new flat tv screens. It's warm here. I like that. And I get as much attention as they on the telly.

Don't move....you know I can't sleep if I can't sleep on your thighs. 

I know walking on her records will make her mad, annoyed, tired, crazy...and that is what I want.

Best wishes/

Sau & Carolina

Card Set

After some requests. I now have Sunday Morning Walk no 1 & 2 as a card set in the shop.

Hmmm...something weird is going on with my pictures on the LinkWithin thing, down under this text.

 Has anybody else got this problem? It could be because of all the customizes I've done on this blog though....?

Nu finns Sunday Morning Walk no 1 & 2 som vykortset, bla här.

Sunday Morning Walk no2

With all this snow and cold weather I just had to make a sequel on my Sunday Morning Walk, so this is no 2. 

A little bit more sunny, a little bit more cheerier. You can see the first original on my banner.

Sau has gotten a little bit more fatter these days so an early morning exercise on roller skates is just what she needs but not at all what she wants. She rather lay by the windowsill with her paws on the heat radiator. 

Min illustration Sunday Morning Walk no 2 är färdig och den passar väl bra nu i vinterkylan. Denna är lite mer soligare och lite mer gladare. 

Sau har blivit lite fetare med tiden så en rullskridsko promenad är precis vad hon behöver men det är ju egentligen inte vad hon vill. Hon har ju större lust att ligga på fönsterbrädan med sina tassar hängandes ner på elementet.