HaikuCat Creations

 Here we are nearing the end of May with everything warming up and my morning walks becoming more challenging because I can’t seem to get motivated enough to get out early enough to beat the heat. It is rapidly approaching the time of year in which I hibernate for months on end, reveling in the invention of air conditioning. So, how has my May gone, creatively speaking? Let’s see. Illustration-wise I had a plan to create four full mermaid illustrations using a #mermay prompt list in Instagram and following the same plan I used for the iPad illustration I made and shared in last month’s blog entry. I would start it on a Sunday, work on it bit by bit through the week and hopefully finish it up within the week. And it worked! Well, it worked for two weeks and then I kind of dropped the ball. But, I do think it’s still a good way to approach creating a routine where where illustration/drawing practice is concerned. The combination of the scheduling detailed above and a challenge with a...

 I’m just going to get this blog entry for April in at the very last moment. But that’s fine; I’ve written a blog post every month for three months straight and that’s something. I saw something recently—a comic? An Instagram reel? I can’t remember—saying that the best part of being an artist is having an existential crisis every single day. I feel that. Wake up. Create some art. Question everything. Repeat. Okay, creative update. What have I been making? I finished the two Zenheads hoops I talked about in my last blog, and I sold one of them. I also, on a whim, made a 4 inch botanical hoop that matches a couple of others already in my shop in different colors. In adding these three hoops to my shop, I’ve created a few more “sets.” Some of them are the same design but in different colors (the botanical leaf design hoops and my roller skate Let’s Roll hoops) and some of them are different designs, but a similar theme (I have these three—now two—Zenheads hoops and I also have three A...

 March is more than half over and I haven’t updated this blog. Oh well. To keep things positive I will remind myself that I am at least getting to it before March is completely over. Before I get to what I consider the most important bit, I’m just going to write a bit about what I’ve been doing creatively for the past month or so. I embarked upon a 100 Days Challenge in which I intended to draw a face/portrait every day until I reach 100 faces drawn. There is an official 100 Days Challenge and it happens every year. I began mine on the proper day, but… I don’t want to say I fizzled out, because I do intend to pick it back up, but let’s just say that I have drawn a total of 9 faces and the challenge is currently on day… 26? I think? I never publicized it anywhere because it wasn’t something that I wanted to stress me out if I didn’t have anything I felt comfortable showing off or if I did exactly as I did and dropped the ball a bit. The thing about a dropped ball, though, is that yo...

 Hello! Welcome to what I hope will become a semi-monthly update post! First, just to get it out of the way, this semi-monthly update post is what I am doing instead of creating an email list. Which is a thing I really intended to do, but somehow wasn’t really feeling enthusiastic about. The bottom line is, my two main purposes for making an email list were to have a semi-regular update/newsletter-ish bit of writing and to have a semi-regular, ever-changing coupon code for my shop. Turns out, I can do both of those things with a blog and I have a blog and so here we are. I’m not taking the email list off the table for the future, though. I may feel differently at some point. So on to the update bit! We’re a week and a few days into the second month of this new year, so I guess I’ll start by talking about my goals for this year. I try to keep them pretty loose. I am still learning things about myself when it comes to creativity and workflow and one of the things I’ve discovered is t...