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My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar
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My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

Dora Hathazi Mendes
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I started to work on the new cat paintings for the cat art calendar in summer, and soon in September my husband came home with a pleasant surprise!

I received a new kitten, who became literally my right hand, as I am left handed! He was assisting everywhere he could, as you imagine, painting became even more exciting.

First, Riscas just sat on the top of my paper, and stared back at me. The moving pencils and brushes were the biggest fun ever! He tried to drink from my painting water several times, not to mention the constant danger of jumping on the wet paint. When he got tired, he was just sleeping through the painting sessions peacefully on my lap. He even convinced me, that I must include a lynx point kitten painting in the set of twelve!

Meanwhile we received also on Facebook several lovely photos from other cats as inspirations, who wanted to be the part of the calendar.

With his and their help took almost 6 months, but we succeeded! All 12 paintings are completed for my new cat art calendar, and they became the part of my Cats of Karavella Collection. Tuxedo cat, black cat, Siamese, blue cats, ginger tabbies, a lynx point Siamese, and white cat paintings.

I thought to share with you some work in progress images, and our fun together. I hope you will like them.

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Riscas my assistant and the 12 ready cat paintings

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

He like to sit on the top of my work

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My Brother From Another Mother

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

Work in progress images of a white cat meeting with its mouse buddy

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Pretty Me In Tuxedo

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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A painting which was inspired of a handsome tuxedo cat called Oliver

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He Is Back

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

Work in progress images about a blue cat, who just returned home after a long time of wandering around

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Riscas is helping

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

I took this photograph just some days after I received my new kitten.

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And he started to have the hang of it…

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

My little velociraptor enjoying the painting session

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Work in Progress – Love is in the Air

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Work in progress

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Adding more colours to the Love Is In The Air cat painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Riscas in action

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

After one month of watching me carefully he decided, he can do this alone…

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Work in Progress – Full Moon

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

Adding colours to the Full Moon Cat painting

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Details from the Full Moon Cat painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Full Moon

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Full Moon cat painting finished

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Starting the Lynx Point kitten painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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The painting which was inspired by my own kitten Riscas

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Riscas with his painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Watching every moment

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Lynx Point Kitten Smitten With Yarn

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

The finished Lynx point painting.

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Work in Progress

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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The Siamese cat art just out of the easel

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Emerald Meets Siamese

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

The Siamese cat painting is finished

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Work in progress image of the rainbow cat painting with Riscas

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Cats Sleeps Anywhere painting is finished

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

And Riscas approved it

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The starting of the white cat painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Added more colours

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Our Purrfect Universe

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

The Ready cat painting which was inspired by a lovely cat couple, Valen and Vera

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Sketch of the Ginger Love

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Riscas is everywhere

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Work in Progress image of the orange tabby cat painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Ginger Love

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Work in Progress

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Work in Progress

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Work in Progress

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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Love You Mom cat painting

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

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All 12 cat paintings together

My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

Finally finished, the twelve cat paintings together in a collage

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And the result, the New Cat Art Calendars

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My Cat Helped Me To Create A New Calendar

The new cat art calendar from my Cats of Karavella Collection, with 12 cat paintings.

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Dora Hathazi Mendes

Dora Hathazi Mendes

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I am an artist specialised in colourful cat art, and watercolour cat paintings, pet portraits. My artworks are available to purchase as originals, prints and related products, for more information visit https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com

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Dora Hathazi Mendes

Dora Hathazi Mendes

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I am an artist specialised in colourful cat art, and watercolour cat paintings, pet portraits. My artworks are available to purchase as originals, prints and related products, for more information visit https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your Work is wonderful, and your Cat is stunning! I love Valen and Vera and the gingers....... in love....

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you Maike! I am happy that you like them! And I am glad that you could see the post at all, because I tried to share to my own Facebook, and I am receiving messages, that my account is not active so I cannot share myself? hmmm :) But I am happy but it is visible if you could see it :D Thank You! Dora

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your Work is wonderful, and your Cat is stunning! I love Valen and Vera and the gingers....... in love....

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you Maike! I am happy that you like them! And I am glad that you could see the post at all, because I tried to share to my own Facebook, and I am receiving messages, that my account is not active so I cannot share myself? hmmm :) But I am happy but it is visible if you could see it :D Thank You! Dora

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