travel – Ryan Conners – KilkennyCat Art & Photography

Posted on November 19, 2012 by kilkennycat — Leave a comment

Bringing Home The Christmas Tree

In a Volvo wagon of course! Thankfully our little Bettie Beige (who isn’t a wagon) doesn’t have to carry home a Christmas tree this way, we go the fake tree route. It’s just less messy and the cats are less-inclined to want to eat it.

Plus, I wouldn’t trust Puddy cat or Merlin to safely get the tree home! Not with the way they argue in the car.

Posted on August 14, 2012 by kilkennycat — Leave a comment

Cats on Bikes

But not just cats on bicycles, but rather plump cats on bicycles, licking ice cream. =)

Posted on June 11, 2012June 11, 2012 by kilkennycat — 2 Comments

Tabby on a Vespa

My first Vespa-riding cat painting, the kitty didn’t have a helmet. It was very irresponsible of him. This time around I made sure a helmet was in place, but I couldn’t get past that image of a cat with a lime on his head. I’m going to chalk it up to the color choices.

I managed to coax Puddy into being a model for me.

Posted on May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 by kilkennycat — 1 Comment

Volvo Cats

I’m a huge vintage Volvo fan. It started with my first car, a 1969 144 Volvo. It was a beast but it ran like a dream in the Washington state Winters. Then one day it died and I couldn’t afford to fix it, I was devastated. Since then I’ve had 4 Volvos total. The current one is a 1982 244 DL with 30k original miles. It’s rough, probably because it sat for years, and no one in this tiny Pennsylvania town we moved to will touch it. Ah well… On to the painting! So I love to paint cats in Volkswagens, and a few years ago I thought, “Why not Volvos?” There’s a lot of us Volvo lovers out there, that also love cats. =)

One day, I decided to see if I could bring a painting “to life” with my own cats and Volvo. It was hilarious, and I spent most of the time laughing so hard I could barely focus (which is why the focus is off…). I’m glad I tried though, nothing funnier than seeing your own cats at the wheel of your car. The whole idea was that they were going on a road trip, and picking up my daughter on the way.