So is it cats and quail now?

The day before last month's Chandler Art Walk a gentleman came and rang our doorbell.  He uttered the fateful words, "Is this your cat?"

An adorable tortoiseshell kitten had begun following he and his wife and  their two large dogs, so they brought the kitten to the nearest house.  Our house.  

So now Momo Velcro has joined Cat and Quail Art Studio.  She is a very artistically inclined kitten.  So far she has walked through my palette three times and flopped on the palette once.  She was not enthused about the baths that resulted from her blue period.

And so it begins....

Welcome!  We are just starting our studio.  My name is Stephanie, and Cat and Quail Art Studio came about because I couldn't stop playing with alcohol ink.  When you spend 10 hours trying to create a parrot on tile with alcohol ink by adding ink, swirling, allllmost getting the perfect combination of shape and color and feathers - and then having it blossom slightly off or a stray drip ruin what you had spent so long trying to achieve - you get both a run-on sentence and the realization that you are probably a little obsessed.

So why was I doing this to myself?

The clarity of color and translucence of alcohol inks, the surprising effects as the colors combine, and the gorgeous skies and landscapes that emerge are what got me hooked.  I started small, trying it on shrinky-dinks.  Then I moved up to 4x4 tiles.  Then 6x6 tiles.  Then bottles.  Then 12x12 boards.  Then I started running out of space.

Alcohol inks let me start to be creative again.  And now I want to share that with you.  I hope you enjoy and create also!