The cat is becoming more baleful by the minute. But who can blame it when the only dry place is indoors… but indoors everybody has gone mad with dancing , banging and clanging? I have a vision of it being a sort of smudgy thing in each spread, somewhere amid the linework. So it might be black, if that works.
I think it might have to be a longhaired moggie. If there’s anything more uncomfortable looking than a cat that has been caught in the rain, it’s a long-haired cat that has been caught in the rain. Poor puss. I think perhaps this cat’s name is Thunder :-) That seems infinitely appropriate.
But I am thinking I will give it a treat at the end of the book. I think it might get a delicious fishy. One that was imaginary, but might, just might, not be imaginary…
Is Thunder a boy or girl cat? Somebody tell me. So impolite to call it ‘IT’.
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Malevolent cat if you ask me. 1st one most thunderous. Baleful was the last picture where it was being strangled by the child. Great pics.
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The cat has been sorely tried, Kezzita. Our old cat Ned Kelly would have looked even more thunderous under such rampantly feline-unfriendly conditions, and I wouldn’t go so far as to call him malevolent. (‘having or showing a wish to do EVIL to others’) Having said all that, I think I will draw the cat as more discombobulated and less baleful. First I must work out how to actually draw cats at all. ahem.
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Looking again, I think it does approach malevolent…
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