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Here’s Cupid Square Kat’s official photo. He’s caused quite the stir over at Zazzle. I tried putting him on postage there, and they sent me an email saying he was rejected because the “Design may be considered violent, profane, deceptive, abusive, menacing, harmful, or threatening” Seriously.

Getting into the home stretch here with the Cupid Square Kat painting. I can’t let it go too long, because I’m painting with acrylics, and they tend to dry up too quickly to linger. This first image shows a newly painted diaper and bow. I thought the color of the bow really helped. He seemed a little drab before I got …

Let’s get moving on this little guy, how about. Started painting the background, and I still wasn’t completely sure what colors I wanted to use. I didn’t want to go with the standard red and white Valentine’s day thing, but I knew the heart would have to be red, so whatever colors I decided to use would have to work with the red …

After I sized the sketch of my Cupid Square Kat, the next thing I needed to do was get that little guy transferred to the board I’ll be painting him on. But before I did that, I had to clean and prime and gesso the board to get it ready. So here’s that blank canvas waiting for an idea. And here’s …

I decided it was about time I followed up on the holiday Square Kat thing I started last Halloween and, of course, the next holiday coming up will be Valentine’s Day. So here he is, my Valentine’s Day Square Cat Cupid. I’m noticing that my Square Kats seem to be following a pattern of being a little stabby. Hopefully they’ll …

O.K. Having a little trouble finding a name for this Square Kat, but it will happen eventually. The first one was a little easier to figure out for some reason. Of course, I’m open to suggestions.

Here’s a new Square Kat for you. His name is Buster, named after an all-black cat my family had while I was growing up. Yes, he had an attitude. He would hide under the open stairs to the basement and wait for anybody who walked down to swat at their ankles through the stairs. And somehow we never cut his claws. In …

I decided to paint these initial Square Kats digitally, post them on The Rots’ Facebook page, and crowdsource some names. It looks like this first little guy is named “Nacho.”

I started playing around with some ideas for kitty kats, and these little guys were totally ready to slink out the end of my pencil. They were easy for me to love right away, which isn’t easy for me to do. I’m usually pretty critical of my initial sketches for a project. Here’s the sketch of all the kats in a …