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“Polar Bear”. Series “For the love of Wild Life”. Acrylic on canvas. 2020.
I made many etchings about wild life. This is my first experience in acrylic.
For #BlackCatAppreciationDay 🐈⬛ on #Caturday :
“Black Persian (Painted specially by Madame Henriette Ronner.)”
Plate 1 in The Book of the Cat by Frances Simpson (London, 1903)
Via BHL
Marion Stephan (German,b.1968)
Der Fuchs ist zurück (The fox is back), 2010
Oil on canvas
Ho. Yes. Is a cherrhe.
Justin Liam O'Brien (American, b. 1991)
Hungry Borzoi, 2024
Oil on linen
Daniel Arthur
Glamour Cat, 2023
cat breeds round #2: Arabian Mau, Egyptian Mau, Burmilla, Havana Brown, Japanese Bobtail, Cymric
find round #1 here
One more post coming soon and that will be the final in this series.
I want to take this opportunity to talk about short tail mutations in cats, with the Japanese Bobtail and Cymric as examples. Btw Cymric is just a longhaired Manx, so we're talking about the Manx gene here. The Manx mutation for short tails is notorious for the associated health complications, even including death. You see, the mutation works by eliminating some vertebra and that makes the tail shorter. Sometimes it eliminates too many vertebra. In any case, you should never breed tailless x tailless Manx. In contrast, the mutation that gives the Japanese breed its short tail seems to be harmless and devoid of negative side effects. There are probably more than these two that can cause short tails in cats - some harmless, some very dangerous. Anyway. Think twice before buying a Manx or one of the breeds derived from it, and carrying a potentially very dangerous mutation.
My Wife’s Lovers, 1891 by Carl Kahler (Austrian, 1855–1906)
Day 3 of October drawing prompts!
Mothtober: Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
Maltober: Ghosts/ Regrets
Apparently these moths can symbolize good luck. I had to ponder for a while about the intersection between good luck and ghosts/ regrets, and figured that both love and time existed in the space between both. This reminded me of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, and a wonderful, poignant quote from near the end of the book. I really do love how it turned out with the ghostly hand.
posting pics of my cat for his birthday
Peaceable Kingdom 2017.
Bryony Bensly (British, contemporary)
Hibernation, 2017
Oil on canvas
Hans Memling - Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist - c.1470-1475 - via NGA
This is so true.
Daniel Arthur
Glamour Cat, 2023
Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (French, 1852–1941), "Kitten"
Martin Wittfooth (Canadian,b.1981)
Eschaton, 2013
Oil on canvas
Great black woodpecker (palokärki in Finnish) (1893) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Musée d'Orsay.