This is just some gratuitous cat love. I thought it would be a hoot to illustrate cat personalities by the commands we use for them every week. And then I thought the post was missing a heap of cat photos, so I added them. You are welcome.
Portraits of Eminent Scotch Characters
1784–1819, Drawn and etched by John Kay. Le chat, la balette et le petit lapin (The Cat, the Weasel, and the Rabbit) (1756). Martin Marvie (French, 1713 – 1813) Cat. ca. 1780. British, Staffordshire Cat and Butterfly (1788). Min Zhen (Chinese, 1730-after 1788)A Concert Of Cats, Owls, A Magpie, And A Monkey In A Barn. Cornelis Saftleven (Dutch, 1607-1681)Three Men With a Woman Holding A Cat. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (Italian, 1538-1600)A Glaring Of Cats Making Music And Singing (circa 1700). Flemish School
It sometimes happens that the smallest cat in the house likes the biggest toys. Spasmo is like that. She will tear through the house carrying a stuffed bunny the size of her own head, moving it from room to room.
I have been somewhat covetous of the portraits people have made of their beloved pets with the pets dressed in past fashions. Upon voicing my desires I have been told “but you can make that.” So…
This is far from a painting or original art. I am brainstorming ideas and playing around with some photos. There could be more to come, you never know. Here is a portrait of Crisco and Sparkles from around 1900. I miss them terribly.
I was not very into sharing when my beloved Crisco and Sparkles passed on last year. After a kitty-less Christmas and many months of coming home to an empty house, Richard and I have adopted kittens (months ago now). I thought it was high time to formally introduce them. This is Gorgon and Spasmo.
They’ve got some growing and learning left to do, Spasmo only just figured out she could push unlatched doors open, but they have given us hints at what crazy characters they are going to be. I’m sure they will begin to crop up in all sorts of drawings after the co-dependency training is complete.
Crisco and Sparkles will live on in their comic incarnations:
There was a time when I filled a sketchbook and did not scan it. That time is gone. Wow, just thinking about it, I wonder how much old art stuff I have crowding my bookshelves that the world has never seen?
While I was trying to snap a shot of her angry face she kept looking away. I ended with with all these pictures and no good one. boo. I suppose it just makes the good pictures of her more amazing:
Crisco likes the camera, but sometimes gets too close. He was too lazy to investigate this time and I ended up with a cover for Cat Fanciers magazine or something. Isn’t he handsome?
I have tried to keep the cat love to a minimum, maybe in some vain attempt to resist the librarian trend. Seriously, everyone (bold generalized statement) in my library is obsessed with cats. Want a topic to break the ice at a staff party: Cats. But who am I kidding? Why am I resisting?
the amazing re-sizable kitty. which if you eat enough of, you will not be re-sizable, you will be very large. Crisco that is. don’t eat it straight. that’s not what I meant. and don’t eat my cat either. that’s not what I meant.