Kari Dru

@karidru

Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He October.Rosehip on discord

1,532 Following11,828 Followers46,561 Posts

Ko-fi YouTube YouTube YouTube Bluesky

amateur

Is this your profile?Claim it and karidru.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Kari Dru@karidru· Jul 11

Here is Claes flopping about because she is silly.

A tuxedo cat on her back on a cat tree, her legs splayed every which way.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jul 9

A friend got me a new copy of the Lost Boys soundtrack cuz mine was worn out. So that was nice. Here's my kitten looking like she's plotting?

A fluffy tuxedo cat with wide eyes and a small, knowing smile looking down at the viewer from a stepladder.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jul 7

The nice thing about having a slightly unusual well known weakness is people send it to you.

A box of pomegranate pistachio Turkish delight.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jul 4

Let's see if i can share this...

Kari Dru@karidru· Jul 4

This is so interesting. Massive close lightning and a huge firework went off at once. In their aftermath, some silvery smoke.

Flat, looming, rainclouds are bisected by powerlines. Tendrils of smoke drift, almost blending into them, but much lighter and faster and soon dissipated.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 29

Stripey is hiding.

A concerned looking gray cat with very wide eyes is hunched up on carpeted stairs that look like they are made of allergens.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 28

If I made you think today, or amused you at all, I have a ko-fi and chronic illness. I'll make any help you can give me up to with cat pictures. Here's Claes sharpening her tongue, or something.

A tuxedo cat clinging to and licking a scratching pole on a cat tree.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 27

I tried to pick some yucca blossoms to have in an omelet, but they seem to all be occupied by these little guys. I guess I'll do with just a couple since now i feel greedy.

A little white moth enjoying the center part of a yucca bloom- the part i can't eat, anyway.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 25

Continuing... I may actually remember what I'm doing.

Detail of colored pencil ferns and mosses at the base of a tree

A picture of a tree with accompanying elfy sort of person, in progress in colored pencil.

Tree with accompanying elfy sort of person, now with eye searing green grassyvpatches and a sunshine glow on the bark.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 23

Me: i don't wanna get too hung up on details. Also me: drawing individual bits of dirt.

close up of the base of tree under which is now a dark brown suggestion of lumpy texture.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 23

No plan continues

The tree's base layer of color is filled in and now there are flowerblobs.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 23

Why not. You can watch me have no plan. I pucked a sheet of paper I vibed with, went with the more textured side to keep me from being silly about fiddly details, and then just started sifting through my brain for things that pleased me.

A greyish brown sheet of paper on which is starting to form a person with antlers under a giant tree growing into a hill.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 23

I am late but, a hug and kittens.

Two young, sleepy cats on a star patterned blanket. The torbie has buried her face affectionately into the belly fur of the tuxedo.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 23

Anders: Fuzzums, My Boy Claes: Tuxo or Baby Acorn: Shy-Shy, Shycorn, Little Love Stripey: Stripopotamus, Good Lady Puca: Spooks

A gray cat called Stripey even tho her coat has darkened and obscured her pattern. She's chilling with a plush Gengar and pink dragon, with some research materials and a random box of Turkish delight. And now you know how I do my writing.

A torbie called Acorn is groomed by a Tuxedo cat called Claes. They are in a cat tree in a window and my blurry hand is in frame.

A mostly black cqt called Puca is snuggled cozily into some blankets. Regardless, she looks like she's going to cut you.

A butterscotch and white Norwegian forest cat with a bent ear and dazed expression sits on a ledge of very sixties shag carpet.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 21

Claes is chillin.

Long haired tuxedo cat flopping around on her back on a cat tree by a rainy window. You can see one green eye staring back.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 19

Late night Claes.

A fluffy tuxedo cat sitting loaf style on a cat tree platform. She has major Weird Little Guy energy this evening.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 18

I think she really likes the new cat tree placement. She gets her own cubby where she can see everything but Acorn can't tackle her.

A dark gray cat with bright green eyes in a cream cat tower porthole.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 14

Another friend stopped by.

A dark gray tabby with green eyes watches from a shady spot in the yard.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 14

Where's Stripey? Can't fool Acorn.

A gray cat tail trails out of the porthole on the bottom level of a cat tree. A torbie cat sits above looking down at it.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 14

Claes is currently LICKING the sisal pole on this cat tree.

A cream colored cat tree, with a tuxedo cat hugging the sisal pole with her face pressed against it. There is also a gray cat in the porthole but i think you have to trust me on that.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 14

Hey, check it out! A relative came to visit.

Sitting in some untamed shrubbery is a calico cat with vibrant green eyes that look like my cat Stripey's, and markings reminiscent of the tricolor portion of Stripey's one litter. She alsi has a giant black nose splotch and somewhat adymmetrical facial features of my belovedly remembered cat Fenris. It looks like she's been eartipped.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 8

Claes was sleeping like a rock and I had concerns, so I woke her up and now she's mad at me. I think this is very cute, which has annoyed her further.

An irritated tuxedo cat on a stepstool in a wood paneled room. Her eyebrow whiskers are extremely animated.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 8

I wonder how that happened, Claes.

A textured leatherette book cover in cream with a yellow howling wolf on it. It has been repeatedly punctured by claws.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 8

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 7

The light is terrible and the atmosphere is sleepy, so painting is pretty well off the table and I am doing my little tasks, instead. Cats are fed, laundry is in the bag, three fountain pens are cleaned and refilled... Pen tax.

Three fountain pens on a notebook. Next to each is written the name of the ink they contain. A deep teal with sparkle that isn't showing well reads "Celestial skies (inkvent)" with an arrow pointing at the glacial blue, sparkly, Benu Astrogem Christmas.

Below that, a deep, cool red "Cranberry (inkvent)" points at a basic teal Aurora Ipsilon.

Below that, black "Take-Sumi (Iroshizuku) points at a maroon and pearl Pilot e95s.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 5

Timeline cleanse: Dinner being late.

A torbie cat sitting between me and my teacup, looking expectant.

Kari Dru@karidru· Jun 1

Well you happen to know my beliefs about her so it would make sense she's your favorite. She's very lovey when she's not terrorizing her mom or Puca. Cat tax.

A young torbie with incredibly green eyes relaxes on a cat condo near a window. Her very round tummy is exposed.

Kari Dru@karidru· May 28

I have the sniffingest trees right now.

Gazing up into a catalpa tree. It has giant leaves, dappled white blooms, and long brown beanpods.

Kari Dru@karidru· May 27

Great detail isn't necessary. And it's a practice makes perfect kind of thing. Once you do it for a little while, it doesn't take any time at all. What it is, and maybe what it means. That's it. Like this.

Text reads:
Fighter: The garrison is coming! Hide!
Party rolls for stealth*
Meanwhile, Moon Moon the druid: (photo of a timber wolf leaping, which looks like it's doing a silly dance).

Kari Dru@karidru· May 21

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. 🐈 "Cute meme. Be a shame if I was cute two seconds ago, but then..."