The Cat the Mouse and the Jar of Fat
by Daniel Eskridge
Original - Sold
Price
$600
Dimensions
9.000 x 12.000 x 0.010 inches
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Title
The Cat the Mouse and the Jar of Fat
Artist
Daniel Eskridge
Medium
Pastel - Oil Pastel
Description
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A fluffy orange cat and a small light brown mouse face off over an old-fashioned clay jar. The cat greedily puts his paws over the jar’s top. While the mouse touches the side as if to ask for more.
In “Cat and Mouse in Partnership”, one of the stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a cat and a mouse agree to work together and store a jar of fat in a church to eat during the winter. The cat however schemes to eat it by attending made up christenings for kittens, saying that he is to be the godfather. Of course, he’s just eating from the jar. At the end, when the mouse discovers the cat’s duplicity, the cat eats him.
From the artist: a few months before making this, I read the first edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. One of the first stories in the book was “Cat and Mouse in Partnership”. I enjoyed it and thought it would be fun to do an illustration.
The original is a 9” x 12” mixed media work on archival quality sanded paper. The majority of the work was made with Sennelier oil pastels with detail work done using Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils.
Thanks for looking,
Daniel Eskridge (FineArtByDaniel.com)
Uploaded
September 3rd, 2024
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