{"id":256,"date":"2010-02-16T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:37","slug":"57-365-pretty-kitty-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/16\/57-365-pretty-kitty-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"57 of 365 is a pretty kitty in #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_257\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20100216.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" data-attachment-id=\"257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20100216\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100216.png?fit=494%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"494,494\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20100216\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Pretteh Kitteh&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Pretteh Kitteh&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100216.png?fit=494%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-257 size-full\" title=\"20100216\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20100216.png?resize=494%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pretteh Kitteh\" width=\"494\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretteh Kitteh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the latest entry into the 365 Requests sub project, where my friends, family and colleagues (hey, that&#8217;s you!) send me their ideas, photos, and suggestions about what to do next at https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/ . My good friend Amy sent me a picture of her kitty, and so I decided to use my newly discovered technique (thanks to Angel Bee) of doing a bitmap to vector conversion with the bitmap trace tool, then by grabbing the calligraphy tool with a wide setting and a low opacity to build up the color as if using washes or watercolors. Fun technique, and great, simple results. 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