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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 10h

‘Tis the season.
#spells #halloween #cartoon #magic

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect fit. #sometimeagotuesday #costumes #brushpenonpaper #inkwash #cats #turkeys #canadianthanksgiving

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 7d

#knitting #illustration #inkonpaper #space

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 17d

#heavylifting #cartoonists #drawing #illustration #freespeech

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 17d

Caption: “Now, where was I?”
#freespeech #freedomofspeech @jimmykimmel.com

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 19d

Taking a little break from social media for now. Not sure if the post, (that I reposted here), I mentioned was blacked out the other day on IG was from a glitch, the hashtags of banned comedians or the image itself. Either way it’s taken up too much energy, apologies if I got it wrong.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you kindly!

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 19d

Beautiful work Rachelle, can’t wait! #freespeech

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Reposted by Catherine Holmes

Rachelle Meyer @rameyer.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday, I made a few Free Speech Canary drawings at the rainy art market and gave a couple away. Today, I’m sending the remaining canary to a musician friend in NYC and whipping up a new one for a drawing exchange with the excellent @catherineholmes.bsky.social Embrace action, however small. 🐤

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 20d

#autumn #painting

A pen and ink drawing of a tree with eyes looking up and holding a palette of autumn colours, uses a brush and paints its green foliage with the autumn colours.

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 20d

#cartoonists

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 21d

Onwards #freespeech

A tiny woman/cartoonist rolls a large ink bottle up a hill.

A wider view of the same cartoonist rolling the large ink bottle shows the hill surface to be a tilted drafting table, there is a blank piece of paper taped in the center of the table. A dip pen rests on the raised pen support at the lower edge of the table. A desk lamp is positioned over the paper.

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22d

Update: I have since been able to share it on IG after the tip of closing the app, screen grabbing the image then reposting it. Thanks @paulnoth for that info. Will be sharing my work here more regularly.

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22d

(I had also hashtagged my support of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert in my IG post.)

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22d

Sharing this cartoon here that was blacked out by Instagram. Drew it back in May and simply pondered whether he was returning home to a coronation now that he’s been riding around in actual golden carriages. #freespeech #comedians #cartoonists

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Sep 8

#sometimeagosunday A favourite painting from a few years back when I only imagined having two cats. #rescuecats

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tiny art. #reading

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Caption: “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”

Ink and wash cartoon drawing of a cat happily strolling by its owner in their home. The owner is carrying a newspaper and cup of coffee and looking bleary-eyed as they walk by an elaborate cat tower/tree. The cat looking up says, “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy #internationalcatday

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’m taking a little staycation. Here’s a little drawing from a few years back. #space #cats #spacecats

A black and white drawing/painting created using ink and brush or maybe a brush pen and a wash created by watering down an artgraf carbon disc on watercolour paper. Once dry the carbon disc wash is somewhat erasable. The setting is space and the image is of two cartoon-like spaceships passing by one another. The spaceship above has one driver in a vintage style car racing hat and a clear glass space helmet a cat site behind the driver and is also wearing a clear glass helmet looking out to space and toward a big planet on the right of the image. The bottom spacecraft is driven by a person in a toque and a clear glass space helmet, planets and stars can be seen in the background.

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Jun 22

#creativeprocess #dippen #inkonpaper

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Summer reading. (Swipe to see it all) #roadtrips #chickens #books

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · Jun 2

A little drawing from last summer, came to mind today while listening to the music of #stanrogers

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · May 28

Caption: “All I said was stress-knitting looks a lot like regular knitting.”
Well it does. Don’t mess with knitters(I’m a stress-knitter and regular knitter, so really this is just me talking to me). #knitting

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · May 20

For World Bee Day
Caption: “Buzz, buzz, buzz-buzz, b#$z, buzz(underlined), BUZZ, buzz.”

Cartoon line drawing of a tiny bee on a therapist’s couch, the therapist sits to the right of the couch in beekeeping gear and jots notes as the bee says,”Buzz, buzz, buzz-buzz, b#$z, buzz(underlined) BUZZ, buzz.” In behind there is a mobile wall with diplomas and a beehive smoker and past that are a few beehives with bees flying about.

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