I have been remiss in not discussing, “Waving Snuggie Cat,” 2018. This idea morphed from an earlier painting entitled, “Happy Assassin,” which showed in the Scarab Club’s Gold Medal Exhibition a few years ago. “Happy Assassin” (a cat wearing a smiley-faced snuggie) was based off a sketch I made about twelve years ago shortly after I purchased a smiley-faced cookie jar at a rummage sale. That said, I thought the idea of a standing full-length black cat, wearing a snuggie, was pretty darn sardonic. After all, you have a brightly colored snuggie which lends itself to early childhood and innocence, and then you have a black menacing cat inside waving at its audience.
