The Art of The Illustrated Rat

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

RAT EMERGENCY in NYC

Emergency in NYC:

Someone dumped over 100 pet rats (pews from what I hear) on a traffic island on the West Side Highway near 57th Street. I just heard about this last night, and have been relaying info as I get it (my friend who contacted me is not on FB). Efforts are underway to rescue these poor creatures, and I heard as of about 11 last night around 80 have been caught. Contact info if you want to help is:

Kristin at weberhouserats@haltrescue.com

PayPal: info@haltrescue.com

Vet is: House Paws Mobile Vet

856-234-5230

Please specify NYC rat rescue when contacting HALT as they also helped take in bunnies from a hoarding case recently.

You can also contact Tiger Buchman at the Empty Cage Collective http://www.emptycagescollective.org who will be fostering some of these rats. Please share. These rescuers need all the help they can get. People who can foster some of these rats are desperately needed. Thanks.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

New Pendants

I made new pendants based on designs and doodles drawn by Matt. The calligraphic rats were inspired by The Universal Penman, an amazing book of engravings compiled in the 1740s. The Mayan Rat was actually a memorial to Lord Fatt Kidd (a grumpy old hairless rat we had)> Matt was studying Mayan glyphs at the time. According to my notes it reads "It ends, the white flower wind." These will be available in my Etsy store in July.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Adventures of Hvitt Rota Coloring Sheets

Adult coloring books have become very popular, so I thought I'd try my hand. While I can't do a book at the moment, I can do individual pages. I plan to offer these as a set and there are two more pages coming. Haiti Rota is my mythical pew rat hero, and his name means "white rat" in Icelandic.