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Cat Art Features
In our Cat Art Features we aim to showcase the numerous interesting people from the world of the feline art. Seeing the work of others is a powreful source of inspiration which helps sparkling your own ideas. Off course you should always remeber about the artist's copyright.
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February
2007: Nicole Jahan, feline artist, the full S.O.F.A. member.
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This
month we present the enchanting cat art by the French artist Nicole Jahan.
She works in the elaborate colour pencils technique. Here is what she
says about herself:
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"As
far I remember, cats were always my friends.
Later, when discovering Art, self-taught and from books, I opened my eyes
to Nature, flowers. I learnt colours, values, using watercolor first,
and then acrylics. I tried also working with pastel, oil paintings. My
love for details in paintings brought me towards painting animals. And,
since 1999, my two interests have joined together, and I cannot imagine
to paint a landscape without cats or other animals... Cats have even became
my favorite inspiration subject.
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In
2001, I discovered colored pencils and it soon became my favorite medium.
I have joined the UKCP Society, who is a great help for colour pencils's
use. Colored pencils are very unknown in France and I'm very proud to regularly
write articles and lessons for a french magazine, Dessins & Peintures.
I have also be selling on ebay for more than a year and it seems that my
drawings turn a little in illustrations because I enjoy to imagine scenes
ans stories, generally with a cat and mouses, but also with fairies."
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December 2006: Renata Dumitrascu – cat art collector.
Renata Dumitrascu is a cat art collector from Wisconsin in the USA. She has recently started an exciting web project entitled the Cat Art Gallery where she intends to show her personal feline art discoveries. What a lovely idea! We are going to keep track of it.
The painting entitled Memories of a Cat, which Renata acquired on the net, was an inspiration for this new beginning. Here’s what Renata says about it:"From the first moment I saw Memories of a Cat on theinternet, I knew it had to buy it. It's at oncepoetic, nonchalant, and philosophical. I felt I waslooking into the mirror when looking at the cat. There is a simple beauty in the way it lookssurprised, interrupted from her walk, as we glanceinto her soul. Darastean's choice to centre thepainting around the cat is very clever. We don't knowmuch about the interior lives of our cats except whatwe can surmise from seeing them in the grips oftenderness or play.
"Much like our own flash memories,
the artist proposes that a cat's memories may be
comprised of banal moments and places rendered
meaningful by the cat's emotional experience in them.
It is a profound statement about them, and us. And
finally, I think the painting is satirical in its
choice of background. It says 'this is how ridiculous
our world looks to cats', and that always brings a
smile to my face, telling me to take it easy."
Please click here for the artist's website:
Narculita Darastean
And here is the link to Renata Dumitrascu's new web project:
Cat Art Gallery
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The painting entitled Memories of a Cat, which Renata acquired on the net, was an inspiration for this new beginning. Here’s what Renata says about it:
