Sometimes I like to do art on the living room floor instead of in my art room. It feels more like playing when you do it on the floor.
Of course it takes a few minutes to get set up. As you can see from this picture, I gathered all my supplies, and I took steps to protect the floor from ink and paint. I used old magazines to hold down the corners of the wallpaper I was using as my canvas.
Almost ready to start making art
Then I left the room for twelve seconds, to get a glass of water for my paintbrush.
Duncan moves in
Clearly Duncan thinks you should spend your time with him rather than creating great art for the rest of the world…don’t let him get away with it!
Life is all about priorities and obviously your’s are not quite in order.
Would it be rude of me to laugh? (too late if your answer is yes)
This second photo, more than any others you’ve posted, gives me a real sense of just how big that cat really is.
Duncan is very good at these installation pieces. A very efficient artist, too!
– RG>
I always forget how big he is. It’s amazing.
Classic.
Classic cat behaviour…
Awww you didn’t make art.. you made a throne for Duncan… isnt’t hat sweet. Tux does the same thing. He really likes to steal Dave’s seat when he gets up. And Dave won’t move him when he comes back… he finds another chair.
Duncan sez: It’s not art if it doesn’t involve a cat.
The two pictures are so similar, it’s as if you either Photoshopped Duncan in or out of the picture. Alternately, you knew damn well what would happen, so set your camera on a tripod and conveniently left the room to give him the chance to make his stealthy move.
Duncan is… large. I knew he was big, but the second picture gives us a better impression. Holy crap.
What you need is stealth. Mucho stealth. Next time you’re doing art on the floor, place a piece your current knitting in the general vicinity and see if Duncan doesn’t go lay on that instead. Works for me anyway (http://theblacksheep-misadventuresinknitting.blogspot.com/2009/05/spot-flaw.html )
How are you going to hang him on the wall? Or perhaps he’s a tabletop piece??
Ha ha. Bazel always sits on stuff I put down, too. Lay a t-shirt on the bed to wear and he’s on it. Put my newspaper on the coffee table ready to read, he’s on it. Put the bathmat on the floor ready for my bath, he’s on it. And whenever The kid lays out some art project she’s working on, he gets right on that, too. I wonder what that signifies in the cat world?
I knew he was a big cat, but holy crap!
When I’m taking photos of a project, I have to work fast if I want any cat-less pics. She could be asleep in another room, but her cat radar can sense when I’m laying something out on a flat surface.
Xup, I asked the same question after I stopped laughing at the second photo. My husband (who had cats as a kid) think they are aliens.
You need to start working with a really large canvas . . .
Julia – I think I pretty much proved that cats are aliens on my “how I know aliens are living among us” blog post
Priceless.
That is too funny. Animals have a way with that sort of thing.
My cats bat my brushes and pens with their paws. They think it is a game. Makes for some very messy work.