Painting Cats: Curious, Mindful & Free-Spirited Watercolors

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adult coloring book trend picked up and morphed into a broader fascination with the meditative qualities of painting, drawing, and other art forms. It created a new market for books that simultaneously provide creative outlets and calming, reflective, or therapeutic approaches to playing with form, shape, color, and method. In that context, Runyan’s (Painting Happiness) book seems like a happy inevitability. The book’s promise of “free-spirited watercolors” will appeal to cat lovers and creators of all sorts, and its delightful images will inspire doodles, drawings, and more. As a basic introduction to watercolor, the book is less detailed than it might be however. There are general descriptions of supplies and techniques without much guidance, which may be the point, but it will leave some aspiring watercolor artists wanting more.