Just for fun: Pummy

I've been spending most of my drawing time lately working on sketches/text for a picture book dummy.  You can see some of those sketches in my previous posts; however, this morning, the last week before school, as the girls and I sat around the kitchen table after breakies, we were feeling silly.  The girls wanted me to draw a picture of Pummy for them.  So out came my sketchbook.

Pummy is a rough and tumble, one-eyed (yellow) cat from the book we've been reading at bed time: "The Calder Game" by Blue Balliett.  Pummy is a cat from the story.  He's not even a central character in the story, but my kids love him because of his name.  They laugh every time it's mentioned.

So, this morning, I started out with a cat.  With an eye-patch, but was told that "that's not what Pummy looks like."  The eye-patch was discarded.  Then they started singing a song about Pummy having been to a circus, hence the balloon.  And of course, he needed a little play thing too... the mouse.   Pummy seems so disagreeable, that we were certain he'd have a tattoo, although, I'm not quite sure what a cat tattoo would look like but I gave it shot anyway.