Saturday, March 16, 2024

St Catrick Guest Cat Creative Winners

Good morning, Peaches the cat here!  This week our human hosted a St. Catrick’s (okay, St. Patrick’s) contest for “MOST CREATIVE ST PATRICKS CAT.”  There was some heavy competition & three talented winners were chosen. (You guessed it, we were “polite” and sat out the competition.  Just sayin...)

Anyway, we’re proud to present the talented artists and photographers who were 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for our Creative Caturday Hop!  We also included the link to their picture on the Fine Art America site in case you want to investigate them further!

1.  LUCKY KITTEN - by Shoal Hollingsworth

Shoal Hollingworth is a professional photographer living in California.  He shoots an amazing variety of topics and has a wonderful collection of pets – not only cats but dogs, fish, horses and even a rooster.  He writes “I absolutely love being behind the camera and will take on any photography challenge.”

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lucky-kitten-shoal-hollingsworth.html



2.  HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY KITTEN - by Zenya Zenyaris


Zenya is an illustrator and artist,  also from California. With a diverse portfolio including digital art and other forms of art.  She has a special collection of holiday prints, including this cute St Patricks day kitten with a pensive expression  and green St Patricks hat surrounded in Clover.


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-happy-st-patricks-day-kitten-zenya-zenyaris.html


3.  ST PATS CATS - by Andy Gambino


Andy Gambino, our third winner is from London, England. Formerly he worked at the Royal Opera House Covenant Garden in the costume department & eventually took up architectural and portrait photography.  He now creates primarily in digital art. His imaginative  abilities certainly show in the whimsical portraits of a cat trio & miniature kitten watching a St Patrick’s event


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/st-pats-cats-andy-gambino.html



You might well wonder where were WE when all this voting was going on?  Well, we had an important job.  We helped Mom Carol keep all the voters in line.  And of course we had final veto power over the finalists.  We felt alittle left out...but we had our job to do!  

We love watching the other cats on Fine Art America because our Human learns so much from studying all the different kinds of art.  She actually curates a creative cats group, of which these talented artist were members.  Sometimes she’s in such a good mood she gives us extra TREATS!

Signing off for now and we will reappear tomorrow with our OWN St Catrick’s Day greeting!


Love, Peaches & Paprika

PS:  Mom Carol has her own FineArtAmerica site.  It is:

carol-lowbeer@pixels.com

Joining Athena & Marie’s Creative Caturday Hop and Cat on My Head’s Sunday Hop.

 Happy St Catrick’s to all and may the road rise up to meet you in your travels!


Love, Peaches & Paprika

Monday, March 11, 2024

Who Won the OS-CAT awards?

Well it wasn’t us! Would you believe Mom Carol disqualified us because of previous winnings and opened up the contest to OTHER CATS?  Mouses!!! This is the 4th annual Os-CAT awards but it does make  for an exciting evening where CATS - not only humans - can PURR-ticipate!  (even tho it wasn’t us...we DID give the awards)

The prize was for BEST CATTITUDE...though special prizes were awarded which will be explained.

There were 37 Cats who entered

15 Finalists (selected by Mom Carol

Four CATTITUDE winners (selected by Peaches and Paprika’s Facebook group friends 




and 5 “special prizes awarded”  for “cat with most creative pose,”  “best dressed cat,” “most covetous cat,” “Best synchronicity” and “most outrageous cat.”


 





Note: The outrageous cat award featured a dramatic shot of Tony the Cat sitting atop a BIRD cage with all FANGS showing!  Mi Cod!

All in all it was an EXCITING contest for the cats involved...not for US...cuz all we got to do was watch.  Fair? NOT fair?

                THE “HOW COULD YOU?” LOOK


We ended the evening with that “special look” straight at our human.  She knows what it means.  But she promises to make up for her lapse of attention in the coming week by posting EXTRA ST CATRICKS DAY pictures...of US!

Due to the occasion, we’re joining Cat On My Head’s Sunday special Hop and Cat Blogosphere too!



Saturday, March 9, 2024

OS-CAT AWARDS WEEKEND!


As you know, we like to purr-tonally celebrate all Special Events and the event this weekend are the Oscar Awards Sunday March 10.


But WE like to use this opportunity to hold OS-CAT award events for our Facebook group and anyone who’d like to join in.  Of course WE should really win the award for “BEST CATTITUDE,” don’t you think?

Here are two pictures of awards we feel we richly deserve....Of course, as drama queen, the Cattitude Award should be mine...

And giving credit where credit is due, I have to admit (though I hate to admit it) that Paprika, with her constant antics richly deserves the ACROBATICS Awards....

Of course there are OTHER deserving cats...and our human is trying to talk us into letting others compete.  We don’t know about that! We will report back on this tomorrow!

Meanwhile, we feel privileged to join Athena and Marie’s creative Caturday Hop...We try to visit when we can...though we often have technical trouble commenting on others blogs....we don’t know why....our human is trying to solve this dilemma...









Saturday, February 24, 2024

Lavender Cat-Ur-Day Love



Our human is in denial about winter!  Do you see ANY signs of winter in these CATURDAY PORTRAITS she created?  Hopeless case!  But I, Peaches, got a special portrait done just of me... and Paprika, who got buried in a lavender 
bush didn’t do that badly either! Once I saw how great she looked in that bush, I wanted to be encased in lavender as well! - Love, Peaches the cat 
I like looking sultry whenever possible!  Do you mind? -- Peaches the cat

THINK we’ll venture out in the world and join Marie & Athena, cat goddess & her creative cat friends this morning!