Calling all cats, meow... — One Red Chair Studio

News on the art front is a lovely artsy afternoon with the good-looking and talented artist above. Grandma, Evie, and I each made a one-page booklet of animals with special requirements (elephant - with a hat) and, of course, the best one was Evie’s.

The 2021 Calendar, yet unnamed, will feature CATS. I mean, I did DOGS a few years ago, and our two kitties have been nagging me ever since. They were totally flummoxed at BIRDS - c’mon already - but now their time has come.

If you would like your kitty in the calendar, let me know by separate email (1redchair@gmail.com) and send a good photo or two and the cat’s name. If the photo is usable for me to draw/paint/collage or ink from, I’ll ask you for more personality information, and your kitty will have its own month next year. I hope to have a variety of breeds represented, so I will look at all the possibilities but give preference to the earlier submissions. At this writing, I expect to approach this calendar whimsically, relaying on some stereotypical assessments of our favorite felines (“Oh, yeah, welcome back…were you gone?”)

If you have not seen “Best Friends,” the 2018 dogs calendar, and would like to become familiar with my work, you can see a trailer video here. I need to get serious about the calendar this month, so if you’d like to participate, please do so in the next week or ten days. I hope you will join the fun if you have a favorite feline to honor.