Here is Captain Haddock in his favourite position in the evening – sleeping with his head resting on my wife’s leg. He never does this with me – though he does tend to sleep on my side of the bed and plod around me at night. There is no question who is his favourite person.
Thu-16-Oct-2025
General Tapioca (our youngest cat) always sits on the back of the couch in the evenings. Always appearing startled, he never sits on our laps. He’s also a lot smaller than his brother Captain Haddock.
Wed-24-Sep-2025
I’ve said before that I should include a cat sketch in every sketchbook (see sketch No.106-3166), so here is a quick painting for this one. Captain Haddock only seems to get larger and now easily hogs the footstool to himself in the evenings.
Thu-18-Sep-2025
General Tapioca often looks pissed off with me (probably for disturbing and petting him) – or if not that – startled or terrified. He does have rare moment of friendliness, where he goes a bit mad purring and rubbing around your legs. You might notice a second sketch overlapping with this …because of course he didn’t stay still when I drew him!
Thu-14-Aug-2025
I doubt this will be my only cat sketch in this sketchbook. Here is Captain Haddock sleeping next to me on the couch with his face buried in the blanket. I draw a lot of still life sketchers, but prefer to sketch what is around me. At the time I sketched this, it had been raining steadily for days and there was flooding all over the city.
Tue-22-Jul-2025
I wasn’t planning to sketch our cat (Captain Haddock) on this particular evening, but thought why not? He’s getting bigger and bigger and hogs the footstool most evenings.
Fri-27-Jun-2025
With this sketch I was sticking to the idea of sketching whatever is in front of me…in this case, Captain Haddock in one of his favourite spots in the evening – though he prefers to sit there when my wife is also trying to use the footstool. A malong (a traditional Filipino garment) is a large, tube-shaped piece of cloth that is wrapped around the body, worn by men and women.
Tue-18-Feb-2025
One of my sketchbooks wouldn’t be complete without a sketch of our cats. Here they are on their cat condo. Captain Haddock, who seems to get bigger each day (big boned I say, not fat), hangs over the edge of the bit he prefers to sit on. General Tapioca is still small and seems like he is going to be kitten sized forever.
Fri-7-Feb-2025
Our cats (who are brothers, but a few years apart), are looking more and more like each other. The main difference is that Captain Haddock is huge and General Tapioca seems like he is always going to be little.
Tue-3-Dec-2024