October 30th, 2008Cat Painting
Cat Painting
New form of Art : Cat Painting
Some of these cat paintings have cost $15,000 and had to be renewed every 3 months! Some cat owners are really crazy about their cats! I’m not sure these poor cats really enjoyed the long hours of painting on their fur. The results are pretty amazing! Some cat painting are very simple with a unique color, others are very complex and required a true artist, like painting on a canvas. These cats are ready for Halloween!
Cat Painting Picture Gallery
Paint Your Cat and Painting on cats
November 5th, 2008 at 1:04 am
These painted cats look so colorful and amazing! They remind me of some of the behind the scenes footage I saw recently of the “Believe” Live stage production by Criss Angel And Cirque Du Soleil. I am currently working for Cirque and an associate of mine here got to see the show. She had nothing but positive things to say about it, and I can’t wait to see it for myself (hopefully). If you would like to see the footage for yourself, check it out: youtube.com/cirquelasvegas
November 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Thanks for posting this-and the wonderful pictures.Cats are beautiful all on their own-yes! Alot of people may babble that this is animal cruelty. I however do not see it like that,and I am a HUGE animal rights girl. This is not harmful to them at all,it does not seep into their skin,or harm thier fur any. It comes off over time on its own. If the cat bathes himself he will NOT be harmed by the paint. Its more a dye,than a paint.I dye my dogs all the time,so whats the difference between people who dye their pooches(wich you have seen many times I am sure) to now dying their cat? NONE:)
anyhoo~Thanks alot,great pics of them all!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:35 am
You may be a “HUGE animal rights girl”, but you’re also “HUGE”ly in need of a spell checker and book on basic Biology. Yes, it DOES seep into their skin-every time the cat and dog lick at the stuff. It’s called osmosis.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Poor Poor Cats And Stupid Stupid People…
July 16th, 2009 at 7:44 am
funny cat
July 25th, 2009 at 1:20 am
What is the matter with these people? You can buy a “plush” pet and colour it anyway you want, but a living, breathing, being? For goodness sake, get out of the house – get some friends! Leave the poor animals alone. If you really want to express yourself, get a tattoo. It’s your choice to do whatever you want to yourself, leave the poor cat be! I sincerely doubt that you could do this to any cat without drugging it into submission. What kind of fool would do this to a cat?
September 30th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
well thomas mallory YOU need a science lesson, that is not at all what osmosis is, you fail
Osmosis:
a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane.
you are talking about absorbing
absorbing:
take in or soak up (energy, or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action, typically gradually
and they probably used animal safe paint, because you know it does exist, like face paint
October 1st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
These look photoshopped- particularly the tartan cat. It’s cute though!
October 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am
looks cool.. sort of.. .but weird…i’m not 100% if i buy that this isn’t simply photoshopped, after the fact… but if it isn’t i feel sad for the cats… a few of them dont look very impressed.. if you want a colourful cat, get a calico
October 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
These are definately photoshopped. The lines are all to crisp and straight and the colors are too true… Were these really cats that had been “painted” or “dyed”, the lines woudld be jagged at best and the colors would be uneven. Unless you put the cat to sleep while you did the work, you are going to have one wiggly cat on your hands. And, even then the color would still not be super vibrant – especially on the darker colored cats. Dye yes, but bleaching out the black part of the cat for the Moon… Pleeze…
Photoshopped or not, these are some cool looks on the cats… Wish i coudl have the moon and stars on my cats… LOVELOVE LOVE that look!!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Somehow, I think Photoshop was not involved in these cat painting crazy images! I work with PS pretty well and I could never get these kind of results. The say the truth, I’d probably mess it up even more with real paint so either way, the people who did that are true artists!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
This is a hoax.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2007/02/12/painted-cats-its-only-a-spoof.htm
October 21st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Not as inhumane as lots of other stuff I don’t care to mention, but why subject a cat to that for hours if they don’t like it, don’t benefit from it in any way (it’s for their owner’s pleasure), and it costs so much money? I say, if you love cats and have $15,000, why not donate it to a shelter or a rescue group or an animal hospital – you can specify that you want it to go toward cats only, if you so choose.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I wonder how they get the cats to sit still…my kitties would’ve shredded the painter. I hope it is safe for the cats.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Uhhh, we got suckered! It is a hoax (happily), see the link right above my last post!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
It would take hours to paint a cat and you would have to drug the cat somehow. I am a professional Artist, it would take hours to perform this one. I would love to paint on cats for 15,000 dollars and this paintbrush does travel! But I too think these pictures are a hoax as well.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
These photos have no Meta data attached which they would if they were untouched. Meta data has the info from the camera attached to the image. these have been modified in some way. JB.
December 30th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I don’t think a animal lover would do such a dumb thing to there pets …
January 5th, 2010 at 6:09 am
I have 2 new babies both black both girls 16 weeks old now – impossible to tell them apart unless you try to kiss them which one likes and the other doesn’t so I would really like to dye the tips of their tails or anywhere really so that it will be easier to tell them apart – especially important if one of them is sick – once they are spayed they will be microchipped but that will only help if we take them to the vet.
I am sure as they grow their personalities will be enough but for now HELP!
THANKS
Vivienne
January 5th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Why don’t you try putting different collars on each of them? The dye will just fade out and it’s likely not to show up on black anyway (unless you bleach it first, which would definitely damage the kitties’ skin).
January 24th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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March 7th, 2010 at 7:28 am
very unsual stuff, feel sorry for the cats, hope it is safe!
April 3rd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
these are amazing!
April 13th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
It’s not that it’s cruel, it likely isn’t, it’s the terrible waste of money. I’m not a “hate the rich person”, but surely this is hard to accept. This could cost $60,000 a year! An awful lot of stray cats and dogs could have better lives with that.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
Y’all, it’s NOT REAL!!! They’re photo-imaged. End of story!
May 11th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
i don’t know if these pics are real or not. but i do know i love my two babies too much to make them look stupid like that. i’m sure that if they had a say, they would say “NO” to being painted like that.
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2007/02/12/painted-cats-its-only-a-spoof.htm
August 31st, 2010 at 9:37 am
I love these cat paintings! So well done!
September 14th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Sorry guys but I’m really shocked to see these pictures.
Not because of the result (we could discuss hours to know if it’s beautiful or not), but because of the price. Who can afford paying 15’000 box to have his cat painted ?
In the same time, I try to not forget that each day, 30’000 children and teens of third world countries die because they lack of food and clean water. They don’t live next door, and we don’t see them each day on TV. Is it a reason to forget them ? Can we qualify our Western countries as civilized if we don’t act in justice ?
Have we lost our conscience ?
(I haven’t red the other comments so I don’t know if I’m the only one who thinks that we could use this money in much more relevant ways !)
Yours, Laurent, Switzerland, teacher (who tries to teach justice, respect, selflessness and solidarity to his students)
September 29th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Hi everyone
We are One here and everywere and If this cat painting is real,
they’re treating cats as objects and forgetting fundamental codes as
earthlings.
pd. Third world is a useless word that separates people from others.
October 15th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Photoshop, and not even well done photoshop at that…Whoever made this page shouldn’t be encouraging moronic kids to get some cheap craft paint and paint their cats, cats lick themselves, almost all paint is toxic if ingested. Paint yourself if you’re feeling artsy…
October 29th, 2010 at 9:50 am
[...] If you want to see more funny and wacky picutres of painted cats check out Arnaud’s blog. [...]
May 1st, 2011 at 12:57 am
dont you guys have anything better to do than complain about? half the money and goods we send over seas to those kids rots on the docks mr. teacher. and if people wanna pay to paint thier cats so be it. let them deal with it. i do pet pardons on facebook.com and know that only save a few animals for what i can do. but dont you think to some people (and no i dont know this for sure) that maybe the cats are like their only children perhaps and that maybe its like giving them makeup gifts? if your so worried over the animals out there get yours spayed and neutered and adopt a few if you can cuz round this lil town we cant adopt if we even look a lil different! i say its a right to express art and in a none permenant way. just shut up and look! dont go talk bad about people if you dont know them!
May 17th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Cats are cool…non-toxic paint is real if someone has a problem with that maybe they aren’t paying attention. As far as being demeaning – get over it – The Cats Do Not Care What You Think! Consider that.
August 7th, 2011 at 9:19 am
just saw a book about this today….i made some research online and found this site….all the pictures above are found on that book…i read some portion of the book and i find it very interesting, will come back tomorrow to the book store and buy the book. the book caught my attention because i own a pure white persian……
November 28th, 2011 at 6:42 am
I like this from the artist point of view. I find it very difficult to paint an animal…
January 4th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Can’t believe I found this site. I remember like 10 yrs ago when I bought a book at Hastings on cat painting, and some of those pictures are here. That book had many more pictures though. I gave that book to a friend who wanted badly, LOL. I can see comments about photoshop on this subject, but the book I bought was before most people even knew what photoshop was.
February 16th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Sick practice. Breaks my heart how animals are treated by humans, esp. for some demented, selfish desire to be entertained.
February 22nd, 2012 at 12:48 am
I really really hope this is Photoshop, some people should not be allowed to have pets
May 20th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Really??? Whoever thinks this is beautiful is sick. Cats are beautiful creatures without having to be painted. From an artists point of view….find a CANVAS not an animal.
sick, sick, sick, sick…..not in a good way. Total animal creulty!
August 28th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Cara is absolutely correct. The book is a SPOOF!!! Not only does Urban Legends discuss it, but so does Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/paintedcats.asp