Once Upon A Time… Cats And Halloween – Guest Hosting at Art Journal Journey October 2025

I hope you are all doing well.  Not much change here.  We were promised that this week would be a week of full sun, dry and a little cool, but instead we got a week of total cloud cover.  It was so disappointing as I was looking forward to seeing the sun but at least it wasn’t windy or rainy, so you know, bright side. 🙂

My theme for this month is Steampunk, Halloween OR Steampunk Halloween.  

Today’s Art . . .

My back continues to be an issue, so this is another page I made while standing at the kitchen counter.  The background is various orange acrylics painted over the Amazon packaging page.   My page is inspired by a jigsaw puzzle I saw recently of a witchy girl and ONE cat with this quote and I thought it was perfect!   I did consider buying this jigsaw but there is no room on the walls to hang it up if I finished it and I don’t see a point of keeping it in a box.  Not to mention the kittens would probably make if very difficult to actually DO a jigsaw!

After the paint dried, I sketched out the quote with a pencil but then when I tried to remove it with an eraser, it seemed to want to stay on the page, so you can still see bits of it around the black pen writing.  Then I drew the witchy girl, and one cat heading into the forest, but then I decided that what the page really needed was MORE CATS.

I ended up with 19 cats on the page, that seems like a good number of cats lol.  Then I drew some pumpkins before added all the leaves with a tiny leaf stamp and various Versafine Clair inks.  I hope she can fit enough cat treats in her pumpkin for all those hungry cats!