My art is flat out anthropomorphism. That’s a big, stumble-worthy word that means attributing human characteristics to other objects, ideas or beings. If we sat down and thought about it, it wouldn’t be hard to  come up with a dozen ways we do this all the time. It’s kind of part of the human condition, I think. It’s particularly easy to do with the animals in our lives. Our cat Louis? In this example of Sphynx cat art, it seems almost natural for him to be royally depicted in clothes.

I think my art pokes a little fun at anthropomorphism, too. Going to the extreme will do that.  So, my critters are the most royally depicted (as the most royal human portrait subjects were when they posed long ago). I like to put them in over-the-top ornate frames. My subjects look just as serious, proud, and yes, sometimes pompous, as the human subjects did.