Abandoned cat update

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Animals, Blogging, Caring for cats, Friendly, Integrating the cats, Life, Looking after the cat, vetsLeave a comment

The abandoned cat is being extremely loving. He’s made friends with both of us now. He comes when we call and now our cats are almost inoculated (our male cat needs one more shot) there is the possibility of introducing them to each other. I will have to get him to the vets for a check up. That will be interesting as he’s a big cat, at least half as big again as ours. Still I guess I will find out. I want him to be inoculated too so he has more of a chance of a healthy life. Then if we can integrate them, maybe he can come indoors a bit, as long as he does not fight with the other two.

Cat in garden

Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Begonias, Cat, Cat sculpture, Design, Fun, Garden, Life, Plants, SculptureLeave a comment

This is the cat statue I showed on this page yesterday, in situ in the garden. I’m afraid the plants have dried out a bit and wilted in this heat. I might put some new pots in front of the cat.

I think the lilies are being munched by lily beetles. They are big and bright red. They don’t have spots like ladybirds. I’m hoping they don’t do to much damage. You are supposed to squash them but I can’t do that.

Anyway, thanks to my friend again for making Esher cat. He is a real friendly face in the garden.

International cat day

Posted on August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blacksmith, Cat, Design, Garden, Garden sculpture, International cat day, Life, Plants, Sculpted Steel, Sculpture, Steel2 Comments

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This is the cat sculpture my friend from Sculpted Steel made for me from a sketch I drew. It’s lovely and she just shared her photo for international cat day. It cost quite a bit but it was worth every penny. It now lives in my garden with plants growing through and round it. I am very grateful to my friend for creating it for me. She is a brilliant blacksmith.

A limerick to creativity

Posted on August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Does it rhyme, Funny, Humour, Limerick, Micro poetry, Photodirector app, Poem, Poetry, Silly, What is a limerickLeave a comment

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With this app I will play

Make new images every day

Make my whiskers go all spikey

Make your love much more likely

Art is fun, is what I say!

Not sure if I’ve got the limerick right, it rhymes the same for the first two lines and the last line, and the third and fourth rhyme too. But I’m not sure it fits the rhythm of a limerick…

Da da dah da dah da da dadada (lines one, two and five)

and – Da da da dah da (lines three and four).

For instance, this is more recognisably a limerick:

There once was a cat had a fishery

It ate all the perch and the chicory,

It hadn’t a clue

What it needed to do

So it went into debt and to bankruptcy?

Although it doesn’t make much sense! But then again limericks don’t have to, they are often nonsense verse. For instance Lewis Carrol whose real name was Charles Dodson. Anyway strange post I guess…

Memory

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Decorated, Fun, Glazed, Jug, Memory, Pottery, Tortoiseshell catLeave a comment

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I just found this memory, I’d decorated this jug, I did it at a local pottery in 2017. Now if I could only find the other side with the cat looking outwards not with its back to us! I think I gave it as a Christmas present. That’s the trouble with random memories if they are not in context. I only know when this was because I painted 2017 on it. By the way it’s meant to be a tortoiseshell cat.

Cat got to the vets!

Posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bag, Blogging, Cat, Cat in a bag, Inoculated, Life, Planning, Vet, Visiting the vet4 Comments

It was time to take my cat to the vets for her second inoculation. But she knows when I’m planning things, she’s very bright. What to do? I got some nice cat food but didn’t give her any until just before we were due to go out. She followed me into the kitchen and I shut the door. Next I shooed her into the bathroom and shut that door. I had prepared her carrying bag so I quickly scooped her up. Put her in the bag and flapped the lid over… But I couldn’t hold the bag shut and zip it. So I called hubby… He didn’t hear me! The doors were shut! I had to carry the bag with the flap closed by holding it shut and carry it into the living room where my hubby closed the bag.

Result! My cat got her shot!

Cat washing

Posted on August 4, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Cat, Digital drawing, Fun, Life, Picture, Washing2 Comments

Cats are hard to draw when they are washing, they move from one position to another and when you are trying to capture them on a drawing tablet its harder because of changing tools mid drawing. My hubby just chimed in that its harder to draw flying bats! True, I just haven’t seen any recently.

Anyway I will try and do something different next time. I’m just a bit stuck in a rut today, so please excuse my lack of posting today.

And back to cats, patterns and photo editing

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Celtic cat, Design, Drawing, Filters, Instagram, Photodirector, Pictures, Sketching, StylesLeave a comment

Sometimes when you ‘tidy things up’ with photo editors, you lose some of the character of your art work. Yes it may look more interesting in one way but you can lose colours or small details that you might have struggled to get into the image in the first place. I guess it’s a matter of choice. The first photo here has been enhanced slightly with filters in Instagram. That’s because the drawing I did originally is about twenty years old and hangs on our stairs. The inks I used to draw it have faded so i had to try and restore it slightly back to how it was. The second is another one that I’ve adjusted in Photodirector.

It’s down to personal opinion if you like them or not?

Old cat paintings

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylics on canvas, Art, Cat portraits, Cats, Colours, Old friends, Old paintings, PatternLeave a comment

Two of my old cats. From these you can see I’ve been interested in patterns and cats for a long time.

I did have a box kite someone made me for Christmas although I never actually flew it. The cat jumped into it and I drew a quick sketch. This was the result. I wish I had taken a photo. The other painting was my old cat lying on a colourful throw. She was very old when she passed away. In her twenties!

I’ve done many portraits of animals from photos but these are more personal and painterly. I also enjoyed playing with colours.

Remember the kittens?

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Blogging, Cats, Happy cats, Inoculations, Introduction, Kittens, Life, Looking after cats, Love, Rescue cats, Three years agoLeave a comment

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Three of the four kittens our female rescue cat had. This was three years ago. They went to new homes soon after this. I know they are happy and I’m glad we rehomed them. Six cats would really have been too much for us.

As it is our cats are starting to be introduced to the stray that has been hanging around for a couple of years. I managed to get both of ours down to the vets for their first inoculation. Now I’ve got to get the abandoned cats microchip changed and have him taken to the vets for a health check up and shots. Suddenly things are getting serious. We have decided he’s not spending another winter in the shed if our two will tolerate him. We are going to gradually introduce them to each other. I hope this will work out. X

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