Bringing up Baby

So, my tiger has caused quite a stir in the school playground. After the fifth child shouted "Your tiger is sick!" at me, I asked a passing eight year old if this was a good or bad thing, and was assured that "sick" means "good" in Young Person Vernacular. Phew.

Today I painted the snake and the leopard. I usually have a song in my head relevant to whatever I'm painting (when I started painting the lions, a group of children helped me out by singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), and when painting the leopard it was Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant singing "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", from Bringing Up Baby. If you haven't seen it, you really must, it's a brilliant screwball comedy and one of the best films ever made.

Anyway, may I suggest you click on this link to a Youtube video of the fabulous Hepburn and Grant singing to their leopard to accompany the latest paintings below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTBdhmvjrQ&feature=related