
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/daily-cat-246/1056038
Buck the Cat times the pounce with precision. Meow.

Buck the Cat times the pounce with precision. Meow.

We spent a few monthes in India in 2017. It’s such a wondeful place. This is a painting of a major mosque complex. I’ve painted the still, dry hotness that baked us in the late spring afternoon.

Buck the Cat tidies up. Meow.

Buck the Cat is fastidious. Meow

Festive Cat and none too happy. Meow.

Black Cat, birdseye view.

Meow.

We have a lot of stuff…too much. We have a storage unit to accommodate all the forgotten memories, boxes packed decades ago, abandoned projects and other extraneous ephemera of the ages. We go there seldom because none of it really matters any more. It’s just that it’s hard to let go so we pay over $1K a year to accommodate it all…it’s craziness and a folly.
Anyway. This painting is of the landscape that surrounds our storage unit. I sometimes go to the locker just to see the scenery. The facility is on a promontory that looks far to the east into Massachusetts, far to the west into the skies of New York. It’s value far exceeds the $1K+ we shell out annually to rent a storage locker.

A cat’s eye view. Meow.

We’re driving on a Saturday afternoon and it’s starting to snow. It’s winter in New York, scrub trees in the field mowed last fall are a silhouetted filigree against the leaden horizon. It’s not the sort of scene to leave the car to admire. The wind starts to gust.

In late winter we took a drive to the east of our city, Troy. Here the austerity of the hills frozen and neutral, the cold, cold sky draped with clouds pushing northeast, all of this struck me as a beauty specific to Upstate. This landscape is worthy of painting in every season, late winter being no exception.

The cat nap. Meow.

Buck the cat’s an indoor/outdoor cat…That’s just the way he rolls.

Buck the Cat prepares to pounce. Meow.

Buck the Cat quickly trots on a mission known only to himself. Meow.

Inspired by Byzantine iconography and a recent Art-O-Mat project. Meow.


Buck the Cat’s on a roll. Meow.

Our storage unit is located in Clums Corners, a small farm community outside Troy, NY. Our unit has a sweeping view to the east. Late in the afternoon when the sun is flat, the colors of the sky and land saturate and you can see all the way to Massachusetts. The land is still undeveloped by tract housing and commercial pad sites, still used for farming as it has been for centuries. The place is haunted by early American history, an unsung national treasure.

Buck the Cat surveys the situation. Meow.