Pet Monologues

True. If, and I say only if, there are no cats on the premises.

Opus by Berkeley Breathed.

Found on salon.com and Bark Bark Woof Woof’s “Sunday Reading.”

It’s Friday early evening and waiting for a ride to a restaurant. I find myself visiting a site I have not been back to for a bit of time. This site has proven to be a source of inspiration. I have permission to browse and this feels like I am peeking in someone’s attic as these archive posts—in blog years—are “older” like April 2004.

Yes, yet another great visual! This one reminds me of outsider art, a genre collected 15 years ago. I’ll ping the author of this post, a writer/poet, and maybe we will find out who the artist is. Maybe more.

Inspiration: Watermark (I can’t quite figure out the exact link so we go to home page.)

We are also going to send this to Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

This is such a nice piece of art it could also be sent to Announcing new carnival. Caw to art! #1 will hopefully go up Wednesday, November 7.

Do people choose dogs or dogs people?

We were invited to vote for the winning pumpkin in a carving contest. Below is our nominee and our favorite.

Superbly crafted and a labor of love

Hello pussycat

Thanks Anna! Source: Anna Goodson Management

Artist. Antique dealer.

Robbay is a self-published cartoonist, he is currently hosting a website called MollyDoesTheWeb Visit the Galleries for cartoons about Molly and Sid, Bird Talk, and many more situation cartoons. All cartoons and characters are under copyright. Any reproduction must be reviewed and cleared by Robert Timmons. Please also visit A side of Cartoons

Back to Robbay. Merry Christmas. The night before Christmas. Miami bound. My dog: fleas! TV bird. The old bird dog. Pool party. Dogs and their people. Who da man! Dogs and people. SillySid. Sand shark.

This post celebrates World Animal Day and Bless the Animals. Follow the links to learn more about PM’s initiative which started on October 4.

Here is a Chicago artist who does animal portraits and murals.

Portrait: Cat#29

Mural: Zebras

Animal art: fine art portraits in acrylic latex. Each piece is a “close-up” likeness focusing on distinct markings or characteristics unique to the subject; freckles, fur patterns, scars, eye color, etc. Matthew likes to say that “these are portraits of your animal the way you see them first thing in the morning as you open your eyes.” Also, murals featuring superb trompe l’oeil with a specialization in figurative work as well as landscapes, whimsy and fantasy.

Source: Matthew Owens © Copyright 2007 by Matthew Owens

This post was placed in response to the World Animal Day 2008 initiative. All images can be seen at Bless Animals.

My friend Lisa came over just before my Friday “Kool Stools” event to do a quaisi-quality control once-over. If you remember, these are the new stools I am creating, they are really “kool.” She found very few “fixes” but I was totally taken back when she noticed dog hairs in the finished products. Had already done tags to include the disclaimer “streaks, globs and other imperfectioins are intentional.” So, while we got most of the Roxy hairs out, I decided to revise my tags to say, “streaks, globs, dog hairs and other . . .”

Roxy Hart as Director, Quality Assurance

Then took it another step and “issued” the attached press (see below) release. Had this with a photo of Roxy with her new title on the table with other collateral. The event was fine . . . learned a lot but don’ t think this audience is my best target—more work to do. People took info and might order later. Read the rest of this entry »

Animal art has been on our brain for several weeks when we got sidetracked with World Animal Day. Then last week we visited “Watermark” and found, yes “Cats in art” which inspired this post. We will title this “Cats in art” also so it will be easy to find. A good place to start is Egypt.

A wall painting fragment in the tomb of Amenemheb at Thebes in Egypt depicts the deceased nobleman standing in his boat and driving the birds from a papyrus swamp with a stick. Just in front of him his hunting cat has caught two birds in its front and hind claws and is holding the wings of a third bird in its teeth. [c. 1450 B.C., wall painting fragment, Thebes]

The cat was sacred to the Egyptian goddess Bast. Cemeteries containing the bodies of mummified sacred cats have been discovered with bronze statues of cats. We were, and are, simply divine. [c. 600 B.C., bronze, Egypt]

Cats are known to have been a part of Egyptian households by 1600 B.C. although they were not deified until much later. This touching portrayal of a mama cat with her kitten provides a glimpse of domestic life in the good old days when cats were everyday objects of worship. [c. 600 B.C., bronze, Egypt]

Source: netserve.com
Inspiration: Watermark