Happy Birthday Sabine

"Happy Birthday Sabine" by natalie singer

This is another Happy Birthday card for a friend...she loves cats too...the cat baked the cake.

Ballet Cat

Ballet Cat by natalie singer
I love cats. I love the ballet. So here she is.
It's acrylic on canvas. 8"x10" and it's sold!
Actually this is one painting I would have kept if I wasn't a starving artist.

"Ashes to Ashes"

This is "Ashes to Ashes".   Byrdie my cat died a week before his 22nd birthday, in April 2011.  The first thing I painted after he died was titled "Ghost Cat".  It's a little sad feeling that one.  Then I did this.  I had him cremated and this was connected with that.  That his ashes would meld with nature and he would become a part of it.  I was a bit off I guess right after he died and it doesn't make a lot of logical sense now,  but yet in some way it still makes sense to me; that he became of part of the world around me in some way......ashes to ashes.  

"Clementine" by natalie singer

This is a drawing of Clementine.  She was a very dear friend's cat who recently died.  I'd sent her some photos I'd taken over the years of Clementine and included a note card on which I drew this little picture.

My friend wound up loving the drawing so much she's using it to make personal note cards. 
I just love, and am so touched, that it's being used as a tribute to Clem.

"Stan in a Frame" backstory

This is "Stan in a Frame. My friend's 3 year old son told her he wanted a gray cat which he would name Stanley, but they're not "cat people" so he wasn't gonna be getting a cat.   I thought maybe I would paint one for him.   At first it was a cat standing amongst flowers and grass.  That looked a little too cheesy to me.  Then it was a cat in the bushes which just looked weird.  So then I just put a frame around the cat and added more bushes.  And he was white not gray.  But I did name him Stan. 

Ballet Cat

The cat that dances is a happy cat

Byrdie in the Leaves

Byrdie in the Leaves

I was missing Byrdie today...so I posted this to have him around.