Merry Christmas from Maya and all at Catswhiskers!

Maya my Bengal girl is famous this Christmas!  Denise Laurent,  the well-known cat artist, used Maya as a model for a Christmas card, aptly titled “The Bell Ringer”. 

Now Bengals Illustrated, the best magazine devoted to Bengals, have chosen “The Bell Ringer” as their front cover festive issue:

 

Photo used by kind permission of Denise Laurent of www.thepaintedcat.co.uk. Copyright Denise Laurent.

Doesn’t Maya look great?  I must say that the painting makes her look suspiciously innocent – Den has captured her playfulness and that wonderful butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-my-mouth expression that Bengals are known for.  Angelic is not a word I would use to describe my little Bengal rascal!

I asked Maya how she felt about being a pin-up for Bengals.  Her reply was unprintable as she was busy tucking into festive turkey and not in the least interested in making small-talk!

Happy Mother’s Day!

It’s Mother’s Day in England, this Sunday 18th March and I’d like to wish all mothers a Happy Mother’s Day in advance.

I want to share this painting of my Maine Coon mum cat with you.  It’s entitled “Mother’s Day” and I think it captures perfectly that moment of love and intimacy between mother and child (or in this case, her kitten). I love the way the painting has captured the happy expression on my mum cat’s face as her little kitten cuddles up to her.

This painting was done by Denise Laurent, an outstanding and best-selling artist of our furry companions.  It’s available as a print, and any Mum who’s a cat lover would be thrilled by this beautiful gift.

Please check out Denise’s work on www.thepaintedcat.co.uk, and be prepared to fall in love with all her beautiful paintings.

And just to show you what a great artist she is, here is the original photo of mum and her kitten:

Sorry for the lack of photos and bad blog planning

Sorry for the lack of photos.

I’m still trying to work out how to upload photos of a decent size. I had a go at uploading one from my Flickr album, but I realised that it was an earlier photo (of the kittens when they were 2 hours’ old) and I couldn’t work out how to move a blog so that it appeared earlier in the series. Maybe you can’t. It did seem weird to have a photo relating to 10 July when the blog was dated 9 August.

The only photo I’ve uploaded so far (in the Welcome blog) is really teeny and is of my Maine Coon girl, Ananda, and Pola, a kitten from her previous litter.

I invoked the patron saint of desperate bloggers and he/she sent me a friend of mine who is a professional web-designer and cat artist.

So if you see photos or improved blog content, it’s thanks to Denise Laurent. If you want to see some fantastic cat art, please check out her web-site: www.thepaintedcat.co.uk

(10 August – hey I think I worked it out:  here’s one to make up.  One … two … three … awwwwww… .)