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.

My second notebook has arrived! I’ve taken some photos and put them in an album on flickr. It looks as good as The Bengal Notebook.

This notebook is pure Siamese, there are 17paintings and sketches of beautiful Siamese cats with plenty of space for notes and drawings on both ruled and plain pages. Here are a couple of the pages….

You can see more photos on flickr in The Siamese Notebook album.

Or you can look through the preview below and buy it on blurb.

The Siamese Notebook by Denise Laurent

I love carrying a notebook with me in my bag, useful for notes, sketching phone numbers, all sorts. So when I found out you could make your own notebooks through blurb I was keen to try it.

The first one had to be a Bengal notebook! Well it has arrived and I’m very pleased with the result.

Here’s a photo of Cassie with her painting ‘The Boss’ in the book.

I’ve never tried anything like this before so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The paper for the notebook is white uncoated paper and light weight, 90gsm, so I did wonder how well the images would print. Would they be too flat on uncoated paper or bleed through the pages?

But no! They’ve printed surprisingly well. :-) Maybe a bit lighter than you’d expect on a fine art print but they look pretty good and they don’t come through the thin paper either.

I’ve added some photos to flickr to show some of the pages in the notebook. Have a look or have a look at the notebook on blurb.

The Bengal Notebook View Flickr Album

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!

In this little painting I wanted to capture those gorgeous blue eyes as this pretty cat gazes out of the window.

She is an 8×6 inch acrylic painting on board.
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