Lucky Cat Paintings: fire

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Fire Storm

This must be a holy cat in a hot environment. At least, I think it is. The background look like stormy flames or lava. Hence the name, Fire Storm, which is written with silver characters on his body. On his body, you can see also an Japanese inspired stamp. From the photo I found from an on-line Japanese shop. It seems the stamp means "Luck", although I usually use "幸運". I very much love the use of Phthalo Blue, in combination with silver accents.

"Holy Cat, Fire Storm". This cat has bronze whiskers and silver grey eyes.

"Fire Storm", acryl on canvas, 20cm x 20cm, 2012.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Holy Fire

"holy Fire Cat", Acryl on canvas 10 x 10 cm, 2012.
I made a video how I make my paintings. Somehow I had a pretty long fight with iMovie this time, but after starting over 3 times, it worked again. I'm not sure what I did wrong. The painting was inspired by Stewart M. who is a Fireman and author of Positive Paradise. I have thought this painting out in Barcelona. Not included in the video is the painting of the fire hose on the side. I had already turned off the timer. Instead of photo's, a video this time.

The Japanese characters 防火用 mean "Bouka-you", which translated mean: "For Fire Protection" (first two characters mean: "Fire Proctection", the other one means "Use as" or "Use for"). Big thanks to Debrah for figuring this out for me.

Welcom to my Lucky Cat Paintings weblog

I am not really an artist or a serious painter. I just like playing around with paint. About 25 years ago I started paining deers and hunters in a very primitive style. Also I painted trees. All my paintings were signed with my Georg A. pseudonym signature (A. stands for for Alexander). This actually resulted in my nickname Sjors. Nowadays I don't know better, I am Sjors. I think I stopped painting around 1988 and concentrated me more on making music. In 2009 I was tickled again by the painting virus. I started painting funny cats, again under my Georg A. Pseudonym.

The wonderful world of Lucky Cats

I do not know where my cats came from. I had seen a paining of a kind of rectangular cat playing with a ball. I never found out who was the painter and actually do not even know what that painting looks like. If someone thinks he knows what paining it is, I actually really like to know.

My lucky cats are mostly painted in impossible colors. Some have texts written (Chinese or Japanese) on them, like the "Mushi Mushi cats". Some are inspired on old Russian holy icons. My "First Aid" teacher makes icons. I call these Holy Cats. Also there are Schottisch cats, Tortoise Cats, Candy Cats and Tiger cats. Probably even more will follow in the future.

All my cats are square or rectangular shaped and, of course, out of proportion. That is why they look so funny. I considder it a sport to let the head looks as small as possible compared to their body.

When I paint them, it's often just "another Lucky Cat". When they are placed in a room or public space, it is like they come to life. They seem to belong in that place. For that reason I sometimes hide a cat in a bag if it is dedicated to someone. The cat suposes to come to life in that person's personal space.

If you like my cats, please leave comments. Please remind I'm not a real artist.I do even not consider myself one. At the moment these cats are not for sale, although a lot of people have encouraged me to sell them.