David Bowie is still dead and I am still losing my studio.
“To Market,” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″
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David Bowie is still dead and I am still losing my studio.
“To Market,” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″
Available here.
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, Changes, David Bowie, Katie Hoffman, lamb to the slaughter, To Market
Today’s post is about my husband’s feral cats. Frank works as a mechanic and there is a small group of feral cats that hang out in the yard among the junker cars that sit ready to be scavenged for parts. Frank worries about these cats and keeps them fed. The shop closes down for a week between Christmas and New Years’ Day. In past years he’s driven down during his vacation week a couple of times to make sure the cats didn’t starve, but this time he drove down to feed them every single day.
By the fifth day, it began to feel as though he had a second family. I looked at him and asked if he was really just going to feed his cats every day, or if there was something I should know.
“Katie,” he said, “If I was going to see another woman, do you think I would be taking her ham scraps?”
“Catting Around” is a 5″ x 7″ on canvas board, an is available here.
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, Catting Around, Feral cats, men who love cats, Stray Cat Strut, stray cats
Today’s painting is a bit of hopefulness. “Imaginary Sanctuary,” oil on stretched canvas, 6″ x 6″. I thought about accompanying this with a tune from Westside Story (There’s a Place for Us…. Somewhere… A Place for Us…) but I went with Dave Van Ronk’s brilliant cover of Joni Mitchell’s classic just because I like it better.
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And now here’s a really good song.
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Oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″.
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I don’t know that I’m in purgatory, but I’m certainly in an in-between place just now, with the end of the month deadline looming for vacating my studio.
But the Sufjan/Gallant below makes me feel better. Beautiful music is medicine.
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Tagged Blue Bucket of Gold, Gallant, Katie Hoffman, Purgatory, Sufjan Stevens, The In-Between Place
I was ahead and now I’m playing catch-up. Funny how quickly that can happen. Day 7’s painting is “On Deaf Ears,” 5″ x 5, oil on stretched canvas.

It is available here.
The song below is the best song, in my opinion, from XTC’s brilliant mid-eighties album Skylarking. I think it has held up very well over the years.
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, Dear God, Katie Hoffman, On Deaf Ears, Prayer, Skylarking, XTC
In times of turbulence and an uncertain future, my mind casts itself toward magical thinking and mythical creatures. A Djinn is an Arab mythological creature made from smokeless, scorching fire. You have probably heard of the famous Djinn who emerged from Aladdin’s lamp.
If you had only one wish, would you wish for more wishes?
5″ x 7″, oil on canvas board.
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, Djinn, Les Djinns, Lili Fatale, wishes
Today’s painting is about my black cat, Diablo. His weight this morning, taken despite much indignity but no scratching (this time) is 18 pounds.
He is growing increasingly spherical in shape and has to squeeze tightly through the normal cat-sized door to enter the room where his food is kept. Perhaps this will limit his future weight gain, Winnie-the-Pooh style. We’ll see. (I suspect the neighbors of feeding him on the sly, but only God knows why they would.)
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, monsterpussy, the vaselines