Dog Mom

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

I made some Balls of Colour to go with Art Mom™’s post:

There’s a hero in them for sure. 

Think I’m kidding? I have colleagues who have seen big cats at their facilities grab unwary ducks and ground fowl who were foraging outside their enclosures and bodily pull them through the fence - sometimes even when the openings were as small as four inches square. It was never pretty, the animals never survived, and it always happened in the blink of an eye.

I know you’re frustrated with my response to this post, as well as the others you’ve commented on, because you feel like I’m taking all the fun out of what should be cute, unproblematic things on the internet. The thing is, the fact that people don’t recognize that a domestic cat being this close to those tigers is dangerous is exactly why I need to be that buzzkill voice. When the internet continually shows us content where people are wrestling tigers, or where tigers are living in houses and interacting with other animals, we’re conditioned to forget that they’re incredibly fast, powerful, mercurial predators who don’t give a damn that you’re just trying to be friendly.

The first thing you learn when you’re being trained to work professionally around big cats is that it is not safe to be close to the fence. They can and will hurt you through it - even if they’re just being curious or playful. You’re trained to never turn your back or be distracted when you’re at a fence line, and to always keep back at arms length from the fence whenever you don’t absolutely need to be close to it. When professional animal keepers do get that near a primary fence on a big cat enclosure - like for a training session - it’s with full knowledge of the potential risk involved, happens only after months of getting to know the behavior of the specific cat in the habitat, and generally involves a second trained staff member spotting them.

When people get close to big cat enclosure fencing, they get hurt. Look at what just happened last month in Arizona: a woman jumped the secondary safety fence, put her back to the primary fence to take a selfie with a jaguar, and ended up with long lacerations on her arms when the cat reached through and tagged her. If you look up photos of that exhibit, you’ll see the mesh of that fence isn’t much bigger than the mesh in this photo. That’s what happens when people get lucky - when the cats don’t try to pull them in through the fence. Last year, I analyzed all the recorded injuries and attacks on humans by big cats in the US since the year 2000. One of the most common types fence-line incidents was a big cat grabbing a finger or hand and yanking the person’s arm through the fence as far as it would go. It wasn’t very common for the people involved get all of whatever limb was grabbed back.

People are a lot bigger in proportion to the holes in a fence than that cat is. If large humans leave with mauled or missing limbs when tigers get ahold of them, what chance do you think a small domestic cat stands? Absolutely none.

I’ve only been using Clip for a couple of days now and only downloaded one custom brush set but here’s some of my faves!