..quill and ink...

.....so many distractions and so little time, for the girl who loves all that rhyme...

..fear not my friends, my ink and quill found it's way to a bit of parchment last night...creating a very rough map of Magpie Corner, the odd little town in which LuLu resides. everything from Carnegie Street, the Rotten Candy stand and Widow's Way....map coming soon....

gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

Baxter The Dust Bunny

...over the past few months my illustration station has been riddled with concepts of insane design and stories of oddities...

..i have narrowed down my projects to a handsome few..

..while i still slave away on poems of dear and departed magicians, i have adopted two new projects..one is illustrations for a book of macabre children's poems and the other is of my own nonsensical musings...it's about a Dust Bunny and revenge...

 

somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

.. disappointment..

‎..i was greatly excited by the sound of the ice cream truck...my reaction is like that of a hunting dog on alert,...i jumped up and down to see over shrubs and vehicles to catch a glimpse of the elusive neighbourhood ice cream truck..then, much to my dismay i witnessed several small children running up to a black Jeep Cherokee with a speaker attached to the roof, selling bomb pops and drumsticks from the rear hatch...


morosely yours,
Cat Addams

..#2..

..bit by bit the book is coming together, Dead Magician #2 now has a story and a rough illustration..
..meet Pierre Lapin....roughly translated from french to english- Peter Rabbit..not an intentional joke..but it is quite humorous, when thinking that his death is by bunny attack...

morosely yours,

Cat Addams

..Bear Circus of Twilight...

..now available for any who dare, a tale of tales about tall freak bears..

..a realm not too unlike our own, is a place these bears call their home..

..a circus tent, alone in the trees, what happens inside you'll have to wait and see..

somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

Barnes And Noble

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Bear-Circus-of-Twilight/F-Thomas-Vincent/e/9780615437217/?itm=1&USRI=bear+circus+of+twilight

Amazon Marketplace

http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Circus-Twilight-Thomas-Vincent/dp/0615437214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302210964&sr=8-1

..almost...

                                               ..done...soon it will be 1 down..9 to go....

..but for now, i'm off to have a cookie..

morosely yours,

Cat Addams

...pencil sketching..

...dead inept magician #1...

morosely yours,

Cat Addams

..say "hello" to my little friend..

...every now and then my hands become weary of the pen and paper, and pester me to pull out the fabric and needle....not one to deny my hands of such activities, i do so...but only if we have decided upon a worthy project...and after close inspection of my workspace, i came across an alarming discovery... i am lacking in the monster department...not a single one hiding under my desk, sneaking through the files or making a home of my bookshelf....well that just isn't acceptable..how i've gone so long with out a monster..i'll never know..
...after donning my "mad scientist" cap and setting my hands to work with some pattern paper...i have created Yurik...he likes to arrange and rearrange the books on the shelf and is rarely heard...working in silence like that of a librarian...Yurik is a delight with his wealth of knowledge and keen sense of stylizing with accessories..


morosely yours,
Cat Addams

...lemon cookie

...i believe that the lemon cookie is long over due for that credit in which it deserves...


somewhat gloomily yours,
Cat Addams

..Pirates?...

....Somali Pirates = worst pirates ever...they don't even dress with a bit of pizazz...i mean a little eye patch here, a wooden leg and stripped shirt there...goes a long way...
 ‎...not to mention their "ships"....it's an inflatable motor boat...*sigh*...no style at all...


morosely yours,
Cat Addams

...new projects

...the past few months have been riddled with freak bears from another realm that put on a circus in the middle of a dense forest.... and now that i have shipped off the twenty-some illustrations to the publisher, i can relax and focus on a few of my own projects..all of which have one thing in common- MAGIC.
...i am a fanatic of anything involving magic, illusions and escapes....being an amateur magician, i thought it was only proper for me to start a small book of comical magic poems...with a portion of the writing finished, i have found myself struggling to finish the rest...unsure if it is the fear of not knowing what to do when it is finished, or if my brain has actually shut down..i decided to start doodling and creating magic show posters to get my brain back on the right path...

morosely yours,
Cat Addams

Relatively Insane....Pt. II

It has been a few days since I have finished my Poe portrait, and all of the anxiety, and suppressed curiosity still reside in my brain. However the pumpkin cookies have disappeared.

The curiosity isn't terribly bad, but it did kill the cat, so my fears are rational.

I keep thinking that my art will release the madness that has struck me since we came to the studio,but instead, it adds to it.

What shall I do with these demons? Probably just throw a party and eat cake until we fall over.

Morosely yours,

Cat Addams

Relatively Insane

I have been spending the last few weeks in the confines of our studio. Suppressed curiosity and an appetite for pumpkin cookies have me at my wits end.
I am starting to feel like a character out of a Poe story.
Upon that realization, I started scribbling his image on paper like a lunatic.
Now it is turning into an actual project of mine.
I downloaded a few images of the Gothic writer off of the inter-webs.  His face is quite interesting, from his crooked nose to his abnormally large forehead. A caricature artist's dream. However I am not a caricature artist and I found it to be quite difficult, yet I forge on with this illustration that will more than likely be appreciated by only myself and handful of bedlam residents.

Morosely yours,
Cat Addams

....just an oddity from the mind of a lunatic...

somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

.....

..working on a series of illustrations for my storybook about an interesting affair of the imagination...

somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

...I caved....

..and bought the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch.

I told myself I wasn't going to do it....but there I was at the Apple Store in Portland....surrounded by technical goodness and the name Wacom staring me in the face. After some deliberation, I realized it would be better for me if I had the stylus instead of a mouse during those evenings with Photoshop. 

The tablet accompanied me for nearly 3 hours tonight. 

I placed one of my old cartoons into Photoshop and started filling in some color.      

Somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

My Review of Travel Wallet

Originally submitted at Timbuk2

Big ol' wallet for when you need to travel heavy.

Travel Wallet

Best.Wallet.Ever.

By CatAddams from Oregon on 3/4/2010

 

5out of 5

Pros: Stylish, High Quality, Slim, Durable, Lots of Pockets

Best Uses: Everyday Use, Travel

Describe Yourself: Casual Dresser

I bought this wallet to use everyday, I have to be organized all the time, and this helps me do that. Perfect for people who want to carry their checkbook along side their credit cards and spare change. It also looks stylish when I carry it alone...almost like a clutch for girls who don't need to be bedazzled. Love it.

(legalese)

Jolly Roger

I have been working on a crazy idea for the past 3 weeks. My crazy idea stars my lovely little LuLu character on a voyage across the seven seas.
Loads of concept drawings and tons of scribbled gags are spilling over the sides of my drafting table.
Just thought I would share two of my ideas for LuLu's jolly roger....not sure which would be better for a 6 year old who travels with a black widow spider.

Somewhat gloomily yours,

Cat Addams

back again...

...so i haven't checked in in awhile...but i have been doodling, sketching and creating like a mad woman...
...recently i have fallen in love with maps. maps of all sorts, old, new, town, state, country and world maps....i've always had fun with maps, i am one hell of a navigator.... :)

...below is just a quick doodle of a pirate treasure map that i did for fun over the weekend... i really want to start working on a very detailed map of either France or Tahiti...stay tuned...it will happen....

somewhat gloomily yours,
Cat Addams

Ramblings..

 SS

I did finally get around to finishing that cartoon yesterday, but not without a struggle.

Today is going to be devoted to redrawing some of my best gag ideas, that didn't turn out so well on paper. And there are several of those, but I have chosen one in particular to start off with. 

I also plan on hitting the streets with my camera to find some reference photos. You can never have too many.

Trying to start this new year off right, keep myself busy and motivated.

Also my website is almost ready to launch. After hours and hours of grueling work from The Editor, who I believe is at his wits end. Even for a computer geek, he is ready to pull his hair out over those insane codes.