269 - MITCH - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009

Once again – you are first to comment. That superglue on your computer seat worked a treat :)

Mitch iz key ping hiss I on ewe :)

Mitch says, Thank you for favouriting me; who cares about Dave’s silly drawing; I am much more pretty than the drawing is …” oh shut up Mitch; it’s your bedtime :)

Mitch says, “thanks for favouriting me – I favourite me too”.

He has lovely eyes and I did my best to draw them as well as I could, so many thanks Cathy Jane.

Thanks. So true. Although maybe you should have said, “mews” :)

Seriously though, he is my muse at the moment, but his step-brother Mao is due a turn.

Thanks Patricia.

Thanks … I guess I did work a little harder than usual :)

... not when Mitch is chewing the end of it though :) He’s also chewed the ends of my paint brushes and once when I was doing a watercolour he jumped onto my bench and sent the bowl of water flying so it soaked some documents I had lying nearby. He is a sweetheart, but not the most graceful of creatures :)

Thank you.

Thank you Ine. He’s a lovely animal but very mischievous. He teases our older cat and never stops talking. If he comes into the room he has to anounce his presence and when we open the door to let him inside the house he always thanks us.

Many thanks Atong.

Mitch has left a message for you in my Journal.

The credit goes to Mitch for being so beautiful (he told me to say that).

... and congratulate your daughter on her lovely gingerbread men … it’s a good photo too.

Thanks ever so much Terry.

Thanks – this comes as a treat after just being told tonight (by a Redbubbler) that I am only a second-rate artist who is mentally sick for wanting to get people to like my art.

Yes, he spooks us at times with his stare :)

No, on my work in general. It is someone who calls me his friend. he wanted me to face reality as he felt it would help me. He means well …

Sad thing is, I think his work is first-rate.

Thanks.

I had the notion of making it close up rather than painting his whole face. It looks more scary that way – he likes being thought of as scary :)

I do try.

Thanks Colin; much appreciated. Being on Redbubble is a fun game and although we are all competitive it’s usually good natured. The man got it into his head that I had delusions of grandeur and thought I was Van Gogh. He felt he needed to enlighten me. Yes, I am second-rate compared to Van Gogh, but I don’t see myself as second rate altogether. I see you as a first-rate watercolorist, but that doesn’t mean I think you are a reincarnation of Turner, does it :) If I did think I was the next Van Gogh, I’d agree with him that I was mentally ill :) Yes – I DO want to be “famous” – in Blyth, so people might buy me a pint now and then :) I’m not bothered about being famous in the rest of the world ‘cos I don’t know them all :) I have lived in Blyth for 59 years though.

My good friend – Mitch has ALWAYS expected us to bow before him. He even announces his presence as he enters a room. I sometimes call him Majestic Mitch.

I think basically, if people look at our work and get pleasure from it we are second-rate artists, but if they later decide to give us money for it, it miraculously becomes first-rate art overnight :)

I was looking through my photos and found one i’d taken where i went real close in. It was screaming to be made into a drawing. I would use Mitch as a live model but every time I move my pencil he grabs it in his teeth.

wow – thanks.

Many thanks Lori.

Aw thanks Sharon – that’s kind of you to say that.

Thank you Peter; that’s a really lovely comment.

Thanks. yes, we cat-lovers know what it is like to be woken up :) Our other cat wakes my wife and I sometimes by patting our heads :)

Thanks … he’s got a really innocent sweet little face, but he likes to bite occasionally … then he feels guilty about it and licks us :)

He’d be the first to agree with you :)