About The Artist

Carrie Hawks, 32, a full time self-representing artist. I have been painting and drawing ever since I can remember. I have always been very artistic and fell in love with cats at an early age. I regard myself as primarily a cat artist and incorporate a fantasy theme with most of the felines that I paint. I have always felt a special connection to cats because of their unique personalities. This helped make them a natural subject choice for me. My own cats are my inspiration and models for much of my work.

I enjoy working with a variety of mediums but acrylics are my favorite. I enjoy using a wide variety of vivid colors and paint my cats in all the colors of the rainbow. Nearly all of my cats feature what I like to call "feathered eyes" which has become my trademark. I feel that the eyes of a cat show their independent spirit. I try to capture the cat's mystical spirit in each of my paintings. My love of fantasy is clearly seen in my magical fairy cats and gothic cats series. Winged cats have become a favorite theme for me to paint. My fantasy cat collection will continue to grow as I have many more ideas in the works. Aside from my fantasy cat paintings I also enjoy painting custom commission portraits of pet cats. I always feel so honored when my clients entrust me to immortalize their feline friends in a work of art.

Here is a photo of my work area, with Pookie Bear sitting on my scanner.....

You can see a lot of my artwork from the few past years in my Art Gallery. My artwork has been published in many books and magazines including the Artwanted.com Creative Minds portfolio book as well as the ArtWanted.com 2005, 2006, 2007 Boxed Day Calendars. My Fairy Cats are also featured in the books "500 Fairy Motifs", "Enchanted Artists; Visions of Atlantis" and "Fairy: The Art of Jasmine Becket-Griffith" all released 2005. Most recently,the book, "Faeries Through The Seasons" released Fall 2006 and the Nov/Dec Issue of Mystic Pop Magazine. My "Raven's Moon" painting was licensed to be on the cover of a new children’s book titled, ‘Third Times the Charm”, released August 2007. Most recently, my artwork will be featured in the book, Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed, to be released April 2008.

I live in Florida with my wonderful husband, son and daughter. We have 4 beautiful cats that were all strays. They are my babies! Tabby and Leo are brother and sister. Zoe is the youngest. Pookie is a my Rainbow Bridge kitty. You can meet all of my "Furbabies" on the My Cats page and play some Fun Feline Games featuring the four of them.

Feel free to E-Mail me with any questions, suggestions or requests. If you see a painting that you love I can paint a similar one specifically for you or even make you a print. I am also available for commissions as time permits. Visit my Commissions page for more information.

I hope that you enjoy your visit to my website and viewing my work. Be sure to visit my Fine Art Prints Gallery, Original Paintings and Gift Shop before leaving. Don't forget to join my mailing list and recommend my site to some of your Cat Loving Friends.

~ Live Journal ~

I have a live journal that I post in about my artwork. If you would like to read updates about what I'm working on and see sketches and progress pictures of my newest artworks you can visit my journal here,

http://tigerpixieart.livejournal.com/

Please feel free to leave any comments or messages that you'd like to. If you don't have a live journal the posts will be anonymous so be sure to leave your name with the post so I know who it's from.

~ MySpace ~

I also have a profile thay I post art updates on at Myspace,

http://www.myspace.com/tigerpixie

Thank You for visiting my website and please check back often.
I will always be adding something new.

~* Carrie Hawks "Tigerpixie" *~

I have a gallery to show the lovely portrait paintings of me created by some amazing artists. It is such an honor that they chose me as a model for their beautiful works of art! You can see this gallery here....

Carrie's Portrait Gallery

P.S. I love to see where in the world all my cat and fantasy loving friends live. Please mark your location and leave a message on my GuestMap...

My Online Galleries & Profiles

These are links to some of my online galleries. Most of them have a lot of the same artwork in them.
All of these links open in a new window.