Month: August 2012 (page 4 of 4)

Tiger and McGonagall

Below are a few photos of Tiger.  There’s even one where he’s with his mom, McGonagall.  When Tiger was younger and smaller, they looked even more alike.  But now he’s huge and his mom is quite small.

McGonagall was the first cat we brought in from outside.  We were worried that we were feeding her too much because she started getting really fat.  It took us a few days to realize that she wasn’t getting fat, but that she was actually pregnant.  She gave birth to Tiger, Freckles, and three other siblings.  (We found homes for the other three; they were named Aggie, Clementine, and Kalamazoo.  We still see Aggie from time to time, though she’s since been renamed.)

McGonagall is very reclusive.  It is hard for a visitor to the house to catch a glimpse of her. In fact, there are a lot of days that go by when I don’t see much of her either.  But on this particular day, she was curious about me crawling on the floor with my camera.

Marie took this photo of Tiger while setting up her new room:

I got this photo of him sniffing at the camera:

Marie, by the window, with flowers

Marie took this photo of herself yesterday.

She’ll often look for photos of people, animals, plants, etc on the web to use as references for her artwork.  E.g. if she needs to draw a horse, she’ll look for a photos of horses.  She usually doesn’t copy them exactly – she’s interested in the shading and the proportions of one part of the body to another, things like that.

She told me that it’s sometimes hard to find good references because of the lack of resolution on many of the images published on the web.  This is one of the photos that she took of herself to use as a reference.  She put the camera on a piece of furniture and used the self timer to take this photo.  Aside from cropping and scaling, I’ve done no editing on it.