Art Blog for The Inspiration Place
Free Cat Video Series
One of my 2015 art goals is to create more free videos and teach more content through youtube and my blog, so I am working on a cat painting video series. Coming soon, I'll be offering a three-part video demonstration using watercolors to capture your adorable companion. Click HERE to get email announcements as the videos become available.
Since I am working on the series...
Artistic Symbols of Easter and Spring
Iconic Art
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt
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| Cat Art in an Easter Basket |
Although the basket has come to be regarded as a symbol of Easter, it is also a symbol of spring. The meaning or symbolism of the Easter basket extends far beyond a simple array of goodies and treats that fill a basket. Since spring is the traditional symbol for new life, rebirth and renewal, the basket has taken on the symbolism...
Artist who Depicts Cats like Us
Interview with Whimsical Cat Artist Heidi Shaulis
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| More great cat art for sale on www.heidishaulis.com |
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt
SchulmanArt: What has been your most exciting moment as an artist?
Heidi Shaulis: When I realized I could make a living as a painter! I've been painting for over twenty-six years now! Until 1999, it was a hobby; then when my younger son Rowan was a baby, while off for...
SchulmanArt: What has been your most exciting moment as an artist?
Heidi Shaulis: When I realized I could make a living as a painter! I've been painting for over twenty-six years now! Until 1999, it was a hobby; then when my younger son Rowan was a baby, while off for...
Pet Portrait Presents
It's raining cats and dogs!
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt.
This brown tabby cat sits on top of a white wrapped Christmas present with a red bow. She was the apple of her mother's eye and climbed into every box that ever came into the house. Her daughter commissioned me and sent me a darling photo of the cat to surprise her mother with a pet...
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| Commission your own Pet Portrait or Buy this Cat Print! |
Painting cats on a Lazy Sunday Afternoon...
Who ever said cats hate water?
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt
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| original Tuxedo Cat Art |
This watercolor painting is of my black and white tuxedo cat Ebony who we adopted from an animal rescue shelter. This kitten is fascinated with running water so here she is perched on the edge of my bubble bath watching my red painted toes. She likes to dip her paws in the water...
The Powerful Purr is better than Prozac
How I got a Cat
by Miriam Schulman
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| My Sister-in-law's Ginger Tabby Cat |
For years I insisted to my family that we couldn't get a dog or a cat because of my allergies. I love cats but after having to give up two Siamese cats when I was a toddler because of severe allergies, and then being known as the "girl who sneezed" in grade school when my step father got the...