Leonardo Da Kitty

[Fire Monkey]

I just wanted to share my latest piece of art with you all.

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Tim

Really cute! Not a bad job on the Mona Lisa either. I've missed seeing your artwork, so this is a real treat.

[Fire Monkey]

Thanks, it's funny, I had a bad headache and was generally feeling poorly and so I was going to go to bed and instead this idea popped into my head and insisted that I work on it. Strange how such things work. Oh, I wish I could take a lot of credit for the Mona Lisa, but actually I took a picture of it and basically traced it so what I did was kind of like a paint by numbers or like a colouring book. I suppose that tracing and colouring it does take a bit of work and time and all, but I didn't want to give the wrong idea. The whole picture took roughly 6 hours but the image popped into my head from nowhere in just seconds and the picture I did is fairly much the picture I imagined - it didn't change or grow as I worked on it. Even the posing of the cat and centering of it - only thing I really changed at all from that instant image in my head was the text - I took a while choosing the style of lettering to use and the exact words changed a tiny bit as I worked on it.

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Tim,
Wow! I'm impressed that this came to you (almost) whole. Of course, it's also terribly funny that Kitty thinks that he can't quite get the mouth right when he's created the most famous mouth in history!

I love you sense of humor.

[Fire Monkey]

I'm glad you enjoy my sense of humour - I've always felt it was one of my positive traits ;D It is funny how creativity happens ... sometimes there is a long process but I find that for me it generally comes in large pieces. It makes it hard to say how I come up with things - I really don't know. I guess I just listen to my inner voice and that voice seems to have a bit of creative talent

[Brigid Briton]

Quite a bit of creative talent, I'd say!

[Fire Monkey]

Thanks it helps to keep me going when I feel down.