This is the winner of the Black Cat Awareness Day photo competition. I created a 10×8 oil painting from the winning photo, Molly in the grass. She has such a focused look as she stares through the grass so I added a ladybird to the painting.

Molly And The Ladybird
10×8 oil on canvas board

It reminds me of the nursery rhyme ladybird, ladybird fly away home. I imagine she’s just about to do that.

Here is a close up detail.

Well the excitement of black cat awareness day is over and there were some amazing photos posted on cats protections facebook page! It really has inspired me to look for some more black cat models and do some more paintings.

Cats protection selected a gallery of their favourite photos, you can see them here. And I chose one of those 10 pictures to win the prize painting, Molly by Stephanie Stanesby.

During Black Cat Awareness Day, on October the 27th, Cats Protection are asking cat lovers to share photos of their black cats on their flickr site, facebook page or their flickr page or tweet mentioning @CatsProtection and #CPBlackCats . They will select some of their favourite photos and create a gallery of them.

The Prize

I am going to select a winner from the gallery and paint a 10×8 inch portrait of the winning cat! :-)

So if you fancy a portrait of your beautiful black puss upload your photo to http://www.facebook.com/catsprotection and tell people how wonderful our black cats are and maybe you could win a painting of your cat.

Why Black Cats?

Black Cat Awareness Day from Cats Protection aims to help around 1,300 unwanted black cats who are being overlooked by potential owners. Black cats make up one fifth of the total number of cats being looked after by Cats Protection, and each black cat is waiting a week longer to find a home compared to the average cat.

To adopt a black cat, please log on to www.cats.org.uk for details of your local Cats Protection branch or centre.

To see some of my paintings of black cats including my rescue boy Harry take a look at the Fascinating Felines Gallery.

What is it with cats and boxes? They certainly have a thing for them and it seems, the smaller the better. A good box should be a tight fit or it’s not comfortable. Harry likes the boxes my printer paper comes in.

Here’s a close up of the painting. This is a 10×8 inch oil painting on board of Harry in his favourite squashed box!

This is Harry, one of my favourite models. And he just loves this pose, draped over the furniture with those amazing eyes watching the world go by.

Here’s a close up

And here he is framed.

10×8 inch oil painting on board.
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