My three cats

Posted on March 3, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Calm, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1866, Help, Life, Love, Stress busting, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

My three cats keep me calm. I took my blood pressure today and it was considerably lower when the cat came and sat on my knee.

Each one has a different purrsonality. Calm and relaxed, cheeky and quick to pounce, one that would trip me up if he got the chance. They love being close to me and they are a comfort during some difficult times.

In fact I think they have helped me keep my sanity over the last few months. Keeping them fed and watered, giving them love and attention. I need the love they give back. X

Finished painting, Cat on a box.

Posted on February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, Fine Art, finished painting, Painting, Poem, Poetry, TabbyLeave a comment

Acrylic on canvas.

Little tabby cat lies on a box,

Sleeping with many purrs.

Paw hanging above books,

Resting on my easel

I carefully add whiskers

Tabby stripes match my mug

Showing through the stand

Last flecks of fur

And the panting

Is finished.

WIP, Cat on a bookcase.

Posted on February 26, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, cat on a bookcase, Fine Art, Painting, Sleeping, tabby cat, Wip6 Comments

Resting on my chair that I use as an easle, a seascape in the background and then a small cat painting I’m fighting with. Either the cats head is too large or the leg and body are too small.

I’m not sure about the book sizes, they might be too small too. Sorry its dark, I need a photo in daylight. The chair it is on is cluttered with mugs, the TV remotes are there too. I need to get them out of the way, will probably continue tomorrow.

I’m so tired it’s just taken me 3 attempts to type in the tags for this post before I managed to save them. I keep nodding off!

Purrs paws claws

Posted on February 24, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Claws, Food, Fun, Happy cats, head butt, Paws, Purrs, Staring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat paw on my hand, he likes saying hello. Hello in the morning, when he comes up to me, assumes the “staring” position and waits to be fed! Then sometimes he will reach out with his paw to greet me. My other two don’t do that. One sharpens her claws on my leg, pulling holes in my leggings, the third likes to head butt my hand in greeting. Sweet.

Cat on a step

Posted on February 23, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Blank verse, Cat, Danger, Grey, Poem, Poetry, Relief, Stairs, Tuxedo cat, white bandLeave a comment

Going downstairs?

Mind the cat!

Black on dark grey

Only a band of white

Saves me from standing on him

He sleeps on one side

Of a step

Leaving the other half

For my feet.

He doesn’t want to move

Only shifting

Reluctantly.

Each morning I get

safely downstairs

I feel relieved

Staring at me

Posted on February 18, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cold day, Food, Life, Milk, Nap, Sitting, Staring, Tuxedo cat, unique3 Comments

My Cat is staring at me, he’s been doing it for a while, I get the impression he wants something, maybe food or milk. I woke up from a nap and saw him just sitting there, so I took a quick shot of him. Cats have their own way of doing things, this cat is definitely unique.

Right, I’d better go and feed him and put the heating on it’s blooming cold!

Black and white and red

Posted on February 16, 2025 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Black and white cat, Cat, Design, Drawing, Hearts, Red, SketchingLeave a comment

Love a cat doodle done in Artrage app x

I wanted to draw him facing e but he was too busy looking at something else…

Pottery fun

Posted on February 12, 2025 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged BCB, Blue, cat head, Gardening, Orange, planting pocket, Pottery, Sketching in clay, Slip, Workshop2 Comments

Hope this will be a feature for my garden. Just made today, a planting pocket at a BCB workshop in stoke. Really enjoyed it. Now waiting for firing. The blue and orange are slip colours, there’s a little cat scratched into the left bottom corner. The black and white patch is newspaper holding the planting pocket open until the clay is hardened. I used leaves impressed in the surface for the design but the wet slip obliterated a lot of the details so then I scratched them back into the surface.

Cat behind fishtank

Posted on February 2, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Time, Memory, Goldfish, Black and white cat, Paw, Oil on board, fishtank, oval, 1980's fine artLeave a comment

A painting I did in the 1980s when we still had our beautiful mainly white cat. She would sit and watch the goldfish in the tank, sometimes raising a paw as if to try and catch them, but the tank had a lid and a pump so they were perfectly safe.

I painted this on a board that used to have a mirror attached to it but that was long gone. I used oil paint I think, it gets absorbed into the wood rather than sitting on the surface like acrylics. It’s about 2 ft long and is hung in the living room above the archway that divides the room in half. I often look up at it and smile at the memories it brings.

Getting down…

Posted on January 26, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, missed it!, Pet, Pet portrait, photogenic, pose, Tail, Tuxedo cat1 Comment

When I attempt to take a photo of my cat, nine times out of ten they move (like this picture). They are sweet cats and I’d call them photogenic, but that doesn’t mean I can get a clear image of them. They don’t like to pose!

Case in point, my cat was staring out of the window and I thought I would grab an image but no, he decided he wanted to be with me and jumped down. All I got was half his body and his quirky tail! Missed him again!

Mallaband-Brown

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