Cats and dogs....

Here's a walkthrough of how I create these cute cards with dogs chasing cats up the trees. First thing I must do is find all my pieces.

In this case I had to go to the beach and look for more twigs that represent the trees. I needed to have like a Y shape to it so it looks like the cat has climbed the tree and is looking down on the dog that is anxious to play with it.

Then I have to sort through my glass and find the appropriate pieces for the heads, bodies, ears and tails if possible. Sometimes I can't find the appropriate pieces so I will draw, for example, the cat ears. In most cases I tend to be pretty successful in finding the right shapes; it just takes a lot of patience to sort and sort and sort. At times I have to walk away from it because I'm at a standstill and can’t find the pieces I'm looking for. Then I turn back to it a few minutes later and there it is right in front of me, the piece I wanted. So sometimes I have to take a break and give my eyes a rest then go back with a different mindset. Maybe stop looking for ears and start looking for heads and all the sudden I find the ears that I was looking for originally. Once I find all my pieces, I lay it out on the card to see how I want it to fit. With the cats I use a clear glass but clear on white paper doesn't really show well so on the backside of the glass I will apply some stripes of color with my markers. My cats are usually orange tabby cats because it just shows up best in my mind. I draw the ears on the cats because I don’t have small enough pieces for ears. Once I finished laying it out the way I want it to be, coloring my cats and allowing the color to dry a bit, which is an important step because if the marker color is still wet when I apply the glue the glue will absorb the color and create like a mark in the color section so the color section will not be consistent.

The next step is to add some color to the card itself. I feel these cards need a blue sky and some green grass so I pull out my pastels and set down a bit of color. Now I can start gluing things down. I paint on the eyes and the noses with acrylic paint just give a little more definition.

The final touch on all my pieces of art is to sign it. As my name is Cynthia which sometimes is quite long on a small piece of art, I sign all of my work with Cyn.

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