Used to denote a paws in a claws?

Tabby cat laying down on brick patio with feet on a white and black rug, photographed from above giving the impression that it is standing on the edge of the rug

Ripley from next door practising tightrope walking in the back garden #caturday #catsofinstagram #opticalillusion

Striped cat laying down with a group of stabilo pens arranged around his tail in a star shape

Biscuit couldn't get the lids off his stabilo pens last night so he made himself into a new art installation instead #caturday #catsofbluesky

V&A storehouse giant le Train Bleu ballet stage cloth. Picasso designed

First day of the new V&A storehouse Stratford. It's more than a bit good
That's me in the blue
#V&Astorehouse #V&A

Our other cat would love that, means he wouldn't have to move at all apart from crawling to and from his dinner bowl

As soon as the blue tits segment came on he went from seemingly fast asleep to being on full alert

Cat sitting very close to TV screen watching the wildlife in Springwatch on the BBC

Freddie enjoying watching Springwatch this evening #springwatch

They say thank you! 😺😺

And also happy Caturday to you

Excellent

Tuxedo cat and tabby cat sitting in a garden on a drain cover beside a red brick patio. A passion flower vine trails up a wall behind them

The boys, on guard this morning #caturday

Cartoon of Clint Eastwood in the Good, the Bad & the Ugly drawn on a pub napkin

Meanwhile, at tonight's pub quiz

Wavy copper wire sculpture mounted vertically in a concrete base. Photographed against a white wall with plant off to the side

Copper and concrete
#sculpture #metalsculpture

Tuxedo cat curled up asleep on a checkered duvet cover

Freddie having a little sleep #catsofbluesky

Thanks Raul 👍

Plaster sculpture with internal metal armatures. Photographed against a clear summer sky. Sculpture's shape is organic and rough surfaced taking the form akin to a tall piece of coral

I've been experimenting with making metal armatures, bunging lumps of air dry clay onto them then wrapping it all in modroc
#sculpture

Thanks Selena! I'm really enjoying all the metalworking

Steel rod bent into a complex structure and brazed into a wavy fluid sculpture

I've been putting a few bends into some steel rods and brazing them into some standalone builds. This is one view of one of them #metalsculpture #sculpture

Beautifully seen

Yep, keep leading by example. Bluesky is a better place with you on it 👍

Yep, you too. We're both still here and making stuff so the world is okay 👍🙂

No worries, lovely work, as always 👍

Excellent

Rough marker pen drawing of 2 legged unicorn

A couple of days late for #nationalunicornday. Doesn't really matter though, I'm not expecting a visit from the Unicorn Enforcement Agency anytime soon
#unicorn #illustratorsofbluesky

Heh, thanks so much! Under the gold paint it's 1970s black plastic possibly from a garden centre way back then. Making a marching gargoyle is a great idea! 😁

Excellent! 👍

Cockerel weathervane painted in gold and black complex pattern on top of a shed roof against a clear blue sky

I restored and repainted the #weathervane from my parents' 1980s #allotment a couple of years ago. This winter's storms took it down but today it's mended and back up in the sun on the shed roof #continuity #family #gold #cockerel

Drawing of insect-like creatures in swirly organic plant fronds and tentacles

A bit of idle sketchbookery
I thought I'd line the original sketchbook page in Affinity then bung a quick smidge of colour and texture behind it
#sketchbook #pattern

Just lucky, I had white card and a needle file handy to make the hole. And then I remembered the welding goggles 😁

Partial eclipse image using pinhole in card technique.

Partial eclipse image using welding goggles over lens

Partial eclipse now, don't look directly at the sun!
i) with pinhole in card
ii) with welding goggles over lens, you can see the eclipsed sun shape mirrored below the actual sun
#partialeclipse #solareclipse