Recovering Alcoholic Artist, Steve Keiper Jr., Creates Super Cat Portraits

Steve Keiper painting of cat

I have just discovered the work of Steven Keiper Jr and I’d like to promote it. I want to promote his work because, through the struggles of a person close to me, I understand the difficulties with life that alcoholism presents. It makes life much harder – almost impossible sometimes. It makes life dangerous …

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Gorgeous watercolour and ink paintings dedicated to the domestic cat by Endre Penovac

Endre Penovac is a Serbian artist who dedicates his gorgeous watercolour and ink paintings to the much loved, humble cat. The black cat in the paintings is Boszi (meaning ‘witch’ in English). Some of the images below can be seen larger if you click on them. Use the back button to return here. The …

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Andrew Wyeth – Christina – Black Cat

Andrew Wyeth was an American realist painter famous for his painting “Christina’s World” (see below). The title was the idea of his wife Betsy James. She named all his paintings after their marriage as far as I know. Christina Olson was the subject in the painting. She had polio and was disabled. She was …

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Washington National Cathedral Cat Grotesques

Gargoyles and grotesques are a form of holy decoration. Grotesques are both decorative and functional. Grotesques deflect water away from the building while gargoyles are part of the guttering – water from the gutter flows through the gargoyles mouth and away from the building. There are 112 grotesques and gargoyles (G & Gs) decorating …

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi – fifty-three cats

This is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s “Cats suggested as the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido“. It seems that you can spell his name Kuniyoshi Utagawa. Perhaps someone can explain that. Utagawa Kuniyoshi was a master of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of making woodblock prints and paintings. He lived 1797-1861. The title is a reference to “The …

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