Finally on Society6

I finally got myself a Society6 account! You can check out my shop here. So far I mostly have the Maneki Neko Meme series up but I'll be adding more over the next few weeks. You can also get Maneki Neko greetings cards on my Etsy Shop.

Here are a few of the items you can get on my new Society6 shop:

Desk of the Day - Clowns & Cats

I finished my first year of uni yesterday! So today I'm getting back to illustrating just for fun, and it feels good.
Obviously I started off with one of my fav subjects, cats. This is going to be part of my sushi cats series.

Maneki Neko Greetings

Remember the Maneki Neko cat illustrations I did a while back? Well I finally got them made into greetings cards! And I'm soo happy with how they turned out! They're based on the popular internet cats; Keyboard Cat, Lil Bub, Grumpy Cat and Nyan Cat.

You can now buy these on my Etsy Shop.

More kitty love // More internet memes // My illustrations

Etsy Love - Sushi Cats

Since I started my sushi cat illustrations I've been searching Etsy for some fun sushi and cat filled awesomeness. Here are my fav sushi and cat themed goodies:

1. My Pillow Factory / 2. Gothic Creations / 3. Original Cat House / 4. viruset / 5. The Nosuch Disco / 

6. The Wishing Elephant / 7. thatgirl99 / 8. Milkshop Kawaii Shop / 9. Tiny Food Supply

Sushi Cats in love

After months of trying to get some illustrations together, I've finally launched my first cards on Etsy just in time for Valentines Day. I'm still awaiting the final cards from the printers so there will be some proper previews soon! In the mean time, you can pre-order the cards now from my Etsy Shop.

These sushi cat cards will be available all year round, and there will be more sushi cat love to come over the next few weeks.

Desk of the Day 04/01/2014 - Sushi Cats

Have you seen these pictures/videos of sushi cats by Nekozushi yet? Ever since I first saw them I've been wanting to draw them. Here's the first cat sushi illustration in progress, the cat and lobster need a lot more detail adding but I'm really happy with the rice.

You can find more of my cat illustrations here.

Etsy Love - Christmas Cats

It's not Christmas without an Etsy Treasury, and it's not a proper Etsy treasury without cats. So here's some Etsy cat love for you to purr about!

You can see more of my Christmas posts here, but more importantly, more cats here.

1. Wita Puspita Design / 2. Kilkenny Cat Art / 3. Cutie Love / 4. Olechka Design / 5. Cathy Peng / 6. Bee is for Bear / 7. Vernon Shop / 8. Kilkenny Cat Art / 9. Substellar Studio

Shebbo Design Giveaway

After a short break from giveaways I'm back with the perfect giveaway for cat lovers! I've been smitten with Shebbo Design's work for a long time, I love the detail and personality in their work. Shebbo's artwork is always beautiful and usually features adorable fluffy painted animals.

The winner of this giveaway will win this adorable cat necklace (the first picture below).

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Etsy Finds - Maneki Neko (Lucky Cats)

After painting two pairs of Maneki Neko shoes recently (you can see them here and here) I got searching Etsy for fun Lucky Cat finds. Here's what I found:

1. Mad Cat Studio / 2. The Tiny Fig / 3. Betty Rose Tattoos / 4. 13crowns / 5. Happy Thought / 6. askingfortrouble / 7. Suisai Genki / 8. heydayhandmade / 9. xbfoverstock

Maneki Neko & Polka Dot Heels!

You might remember this custom order that I posted a couple of days ago. It inspired me enough to paint some heels I had lying around. I'm now a little obsessed with Maneki Nekos and contemplating doing some digital illustrations of them when I get the time.

You can see some work in progress shots here.

If you would like some of your own customised shoes you can contact me at my shop or email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail . com

Superga x House of Holland Maneki Neko shoes!

A few weeks ago a customer asked me to paint some of her Superga x House of Holland sneakers which had got discoloured in the wash. I absolutely love the original pair of shoes, so I hope I did them justice! These were kind of tricky to paint on because of all the seams on the shoes. But I'm still tempted to get some for myself to paint.

The owner of these shoes loves Maneki Nekos (Lucky Cats), which I think is such an awesome theme for a pair of shoes (I even loved it so much I painted my own pair of Maneki Neko heels).

You can see some work in progress shots here.

If you would like some of your own customised shoes you can contact me at my shop or email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail . com

Desk of the Day - 21/06/13 - Polka dots & Puss Cats

I've had these polka dot heels lying around now for a couple of months. I bought them intending to paint them for myself but never got around to it (this is the case with 50% of my shoes!). I've had some pretty awesome themed orders recently, one being a Maneki-neko theme which got me so inspired. I knew immediately these shoes needed to be covered in Maneki-nekos.

I'm adding some finishing touches to them today then getting on with some make up themed heels for a customer!

Meanwhile in the background I'm watching Made in Chelsea, does anyone have any good tv show suggestions? I'm going to have to rip my ears off if I hear someone saying "tbh" or "totes" one more time in a none ironic way!

The Dainty Squid and her Kitty shoes!

I've been meaning to post these photos for almost a year now, I'm so forgetful! Some of you may remember, last year I painted a pair of shoes for Kaylah from The Dainty Squid.

I'm a big fan of Kaylah's blog, so it was an honor for my shoes to be featured on it. I based the shoes on her lovely cats. It was one of my first sets of cat orders, I seriously can't get enough of painting cats on shoes!

These photos were taken by Kaylah for one of her outfit posts, you can see the full post here. I think we'll all agree that she absolutely rocks this look, I can't imagine anyone more suited to kawaii kitty brogues than Kaylah.

Wednesday Art Feature: Anke Weckmann

Anke Weckmann is a London based artist originally from Germany. Her work is light hearted and often includes animals (especially cats!). I love the way she draws clothes & materials, I can see her work would translate beautifully to fashion illustration.

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Etsy Shop Crush - The Mod Dog

I know lots of my readers have dogs (and cats), so when I saw this shop I knew I HAD to show you guys.

I'm not usually a fancy collar sort of girl, my dogs tend to have pretty plain collars because they're mucky dogs that can't keep anything clean for longer than a minute. However, after seeing The Mod Dog Etsy shop, I think I could be pretty easily convinced to buy some funky collars!

The Mod Dog specialised in custom collars with a great variety of styles and adorable materials. They even do cat collars too!

 I think both my dogs and my cat are in need of some cute little whale collars! Which is your favorite collar?

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