Nero Claudius - SD by Wild Cat

King cheetah for #febroary

BTW, I have open print order form and there are a lot of art to choose from! -> CLICK HERE

Scottish Wildcat and Scottish Wildkittens. Once widespread across Great Britain, this population of European wildcats is now only found in northern and eastern Scotland. They’re threatened by habitat loss, hunting, and hybridized with domestic cats.

This is gonna be the postcard for February’s Creature Mail!

[ID: an illustration of a serious-looking wildcat on a fallen log. Two kittens are cuddling in the crook of a branch below her. The background is a field at night, with snow falling. End.]

(by Lara Jackson)

Happy #InternationalCheetahDay!

Here is the cheetah in Zakariya al-Qazwini's 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat (The Wonders of Creatures and the Marvels of Creation), an important work of Islamic cosmography which was probably first written in the 1260s, and for centuries after was reproduced across the Islamic world. This illuminated manuscript copy was made in Wasit, Iraq in 1280 CE and is the earliest known surviving version.

RAISE A FLOPPA

Dixie and her babies.

Getting some belly rubs from our human servant.

It’s risky business because I have some sharp parts & I go a little wild for the belly rubs!

"How silent it is, when time has snuggled into the cosmos and fallen into a slumber"

Cat + Starry Night Stimboard!

🐾🌌🐾 🌌🐾🌌 🐾🌌🐾

Lion for febroary.

I have a lot of ongoing projects currently and a little spare time for personal art, but I really want to make at last six drawings for this year's challenge. Please cross your fingers!

Which wild cats would you like me to draw? Let me know in the comments!

(by Nili Gudhka)

#TextileTuesday: look closely, it’s a “needlepainting!” A favorite piece from the “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art:

Mary Linwood (British, 1755-1845) after George Stubbs (British, 1724-1806) Tygress, c. 1798 Worsted wool needlework

“The vibrant copper, red, and green passages in this copy after George Stubb's painting Tygress are rendered not in paint but stitched in dyed wool thread. By the 1780s, Mary Linwood had become famous for her ‘needlepaintings,’ which she exhibited at the Society of Artists in London.

Later, she opened her own public exhibition of her works that debuted in London and then toured to cities in Scotland and Ireland; in 1806, she opened her own gallery in Leicester Square in London, where this work was shown. Her gallery remained a major attraction for nearly forty years.”

all my cat art; newest at top to the oldest at the bottom :)

still plenty more i can add to this collection