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\"Cat<\/a>

Cat sleeping on table – LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n

So this is my cat Jimmy, sleeping not on a table, actually, but a media switch. I just used the calligraphy tool to sketch his outline kind of quickly, then duplicated it and blurred the dupe just a little. Then I duplicated it again, flipped it so as to create a mirror image<\/a>, and used the gradient tool to have it fade out<\/a> for a mirrored<\/a> effect. Under it all is a rectangle with a gradient applied to create a planar difference between the background and the table surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this is my cat Jimmy, sleeping not on a table, actually, but a media switch. I just used the calligraphy tool to sketch his outline kind of quickly, then duplicated it and blurred the dupe just a little. Then I duplicated it again, flipped it so as to create a mirror image, and used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[76,1411,1677,365,411,2825],"class_list":{"0":"post-196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portfolio","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-calligraphy","10":"tag-ellipse","11":"tag-graphics","12":"tag-inkscape","13":"tag-visual-arts","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100201.png?fit=496%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-3a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":513,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/04\/18\/118-of-365-is-a-spring-tree-in-bloom-in-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":0},"title":"A spring tree in bloom by lemasney","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-04-18","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very proud of this sketch. 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