Catherine Holmes

‘Tis the season.
#spells #halloween #cartoon #magic

Perfect fit. #sometimeagotuesday #costumes #brushpenonpaper #inkwash #cats #turkeys #canadianthanksgiving

#knitting #illustration #inkonpaper #space

#heavylifting #cartoonists #drawing #illustration #freespeech

Caption: “Now, where was I?”
#freespeech #freedomofspeech @jimmykimmel.com

Taking a little break from social media for now. Not sure if the post, (that I reposted here), I mentioned was blacked out the other day on IG was from a glitch, the hashtags of banned comedians or the image itself. Either way it’s taken up too much energy, apologies if I got it wrong.

Thank you kindly!

Beautiful work Rachelle, can’t wait! #freespeech

Sing stronger together drawing

Songbird gotta sing drawing

We need your voice

Never stop singing

Yesterday, I made a few Free Speech Canary drawings at the rainy art market and gave a couple away. Today, I’m sending the remaining canary to a musician friend in NYC and whipping up a new one for a drawing exchange with the excellent @catherineholmes.bsky.social Embrace action, however small. 🐤

A pen and ink drawing of a tree with eyes looking up and holding a palette of autumn colours, uses a brush and paints its green foliage with the autumn colours.

#autumn #painting

#cartoonists

A tiny woman/cartoonist rolls a large ink bottle up a hill.

A wider view of the same cartoonist rolling the large ink bottle shows the hill surface to be a tilted drafting table, there is a blank piece of paper taped in the center of the table. A dip pen rests on the raised pen support at the lower edge of the table. A desk lamp is positioned over the paper.

Onwards #freespeech

Update: I have since been able to share it on IG after the tip of closing the app, screen grabbing the image then reposting it. Thanks @paulnoth for that info. Will be sharing my work here more regularly.

(I had also hashtagged my support of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert in my IG post.)

Sharing this cartoon here that was blacked out by Instagram. Drew it back in May and simply pondered whether he was returning home to a coronation now that he’s been riding around in actual golden carriages. #freespeech #comedians #cartoonists

#sometimeagosunday A favourite painting from a few years back when I only imagined having two cats. #rescuecats

Tiny art. #reading

Ink and wash cartoon drawing of a cat happily strolling by its owner in their home. The owner is carrying a newspaper and cup of coffee and looking bleary-eyed as they walk by an elaborate cat tower/tree. The cat looking up says, “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”

Caption: “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”

Happy #internationalcatday

A black and white drawing/painting created using ink and brush or maybe a brush pen and a wash created by watering down an artgraf carbon disc on watercolour paper. Once dry the carbon disc wash is somewhat erasable. The setting is space and the image is of two cartoon-like spaceships passing by one another. The spaceship above has one driver in a vintage style car racing hat and a clear glass space helmet a cat site behind the driver and is also wearing a clear glass helmet looking out to space and toward a big planet on the right of the image. The bottom spacecraft is driven by a person in a toque and a clear glass space helmet, planets and stars can be seen in the background.

I’m taking a little staycation. Here’s a little drawing from a few years back. #space #cats #spacecats

#creativeprocess #dippen #inkonpaper

Summer reading. (Swipe to see it all) #roadtrips #chickens #books

A little drawing from last summer, came to mind today while listening to the music of #stanrogers

Caption: “All I said was stress-knitting looks a lot like regular knitting.”
Well it does. Don’t mess with knitters(I’m a stress-knitter and regular knitter, so really this is just me talking to me). #knitting

Cartoon line drawing of a tiny bee on a therapist’s couch, the therapist sits to the right of the couch in beekeeping gear and jots notes as the bee says,”Buzz, buzz, buzz-buzz, b#$z, buzz(underlined) BUZZ, buzz.” In behind there is a mobile wall with diplomas and a beehive smoker and past that are a few beehives with bees flying about.

For World Bee Day
Caption: “Buzz, buzz, buzz-buzz, b#$z, buzz(underlined), BUZZ, buzz.”

So my indoor cats know which birds they’re watching. #cats

I’ll figure it out, eventually. #beachchairs #illustration

Cartoon drawing in pen and ink of Godzilla and King Kong sitting opposite one another very happily while cats climb all over them. A cityscape in behind them. Two cats run in from the foreground toward them from either side of the cartoon with one cat saying, “It’s always up to us to save the day.”

Cats, again, but this time saving the day. Caption: “It’s always up to us to save the day.”
#cats

#happynationalcartoonistsday

#putdownyourphone #creativeprocess #painting