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Rene van Belzen

Cats

  • Seven years and counting 🐱🎂

    A spotted cat with green eyes is lounging on a gray couch.

  • His catheter was removed, and he now doesn’t have to be contained in a cage anymore, for protection and sanitation. I still need to keep a close eye on him, since the first few days his urethra can clog up again, and he has to go to the vet immediately for emergency treatment.

    cat walking on green carpet

  • With a cat suffering from FLUTD I need more water bowls around the house, especially water fountains. I modified an old one that one my cats kept emptying by pulling it on its side. It seems work, much to the dissatisfaction of said cat. He’ll accept it soon(ish) enough. 🐱

    Water fountain modified with some cooking equipment and doubled-sided tape

  • Sick cats can be so needy. He’s in pain, clearly, and purrs loudly when petted. Painkillers can only do so much. 🐱

    cat with hood around its neck

  • One of my cats suffers from FLUTD and has to be contained for now because he got narcosis to be treated. He also had the hood of shame. The other cat thinks it’s interesting. Cats have little to no empathy, or don’t show it.

    Two cats, one caged, the other free.

  • A “little” thing as a broken iPad won’t stop me from making art. I made this when the iPad was almost gone.

    simple animated GIF showing a cat and a pirate

    And the other piece I made with a PETSCII editor on my RPi, based on a piece I did earlier this month.

    PETSCII art of Boys Will Be Boys

    Not having a backup for my Raspberry Pi makes me a bit nervous, as it should
    🎨🐱👨‍💻🕹️👾

  • As Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the eighties have taught us, cats can without most clothes, except the most essential, like a hat or a cane.
    🎨🐱👨‍💻🕹️👾

    Commodore 64 multi-color bitmap painting of an antromorphized cat behind a pile of clothes

  • While sketching this kitten I wondered how I could do away with all those lines. So I tried to eliminate as much as I dared. I’m sure more could be removed still. However, now the result was pretty “bland.” I suppose color has to do the brunt of the work, and there is too little of that.
    🎨🐱

    drawing of stylized kitten with as few lines as possible Animated GIF of drawing process

  • Searching on Flickr for Creative Commons photos of kittens I found this cute black and white one. I used it as reference for my C64 hi-res bitmap pixel art drawing.

    Sometimes less color is better. Especially if the one depicted is staring into your soul.
    🎨👨‍💻👾🕹️🐱😈

    Commodore 64 hi-res pixel art drawing of a black and white kitten

  • I didn’t get to experiment with edges. Still, I drew something I love, so that’s good.

    Maybe advice from an oil painter doesn’t translate all that well to pixel art. Pixel art has more in common with decorative art (like embroidery) than with traditional art you can hang on a wall.
    🎨🐱👨‍💻🕹️👾

    Commodore 64 multipaint illustration of two kittens, one sniffing a flower

  • Another day, another cat drawing. This time our more blocky version of a feline fellow creature. Sketch in ibisPaint X and final drawing in Commodore 64 multicolor bitmap (160 x 200 resolution, 16 colors). If I could, I’d knit him a cozy sweater.
    🐱🎨👨‍💻🕹️👾

    illustration of a stylized cat with chunk in blocked letters written underneath Commodore 64 multicolor bitmap image of a chunky cat illustration

  • Two very eager feline buddies 🥰

    Two Bengal cats looking from the inside through a narrow window, as seen from the outside.

  • I found a proper and informal method to add a description to an image,

    1. figcaption
    2. emphasis after a line break
    two cats play-fighting on a bed
    One play-fights, the other often takes it too far.

    two cats lying on a bed, one resting its head on the body of the other
    However, they still trust each other to snuggle up.

    Alas, markdown has no code for captions, _nor_ does it work inside an html container.

  • On Caturday we share our favorite spots to elicit an aww from the resident hooman.

    Two bengal cats sharing a cat hammock

  • I sat down to relax and it seemed an opportunity for my two Bengal cats to snuggle together next to me. I hadn’t even noticed. The summer is definitely over now.

    Cosy sleeping cats next to me on a couch

  • Sun worshipers 🐱☀️

    Two cats in a tiny room sharing sunlight shining on floor and wall.

  • I wanted to go shopping, but, apparently, I am not 🐱😻

    Cat sits in shopping crate, looks quite smug of itself

  • 6 years and counting 😺🥳

    Cat sitting on folded table cloth looking up, away from camera

  • If I were as eager into doing my garden as my cat is into eating, my garden would’ve been done already. Ah well, lazybones is making some progress now, at the start of meteorological summer. (Sry 4 🙈 🎞️🛍️ job… LZ.) 😂

    Potting soil in the foreground, hungry cat in the background, bad photoshop job on the side

  • TIL. When a cat grooms another cat, it’s meant to reassure the other cat they are part of the gang, and also that the groomer is dominant over the groomee. It establish social hierarchy without fighting, although if both cats start grooming each other, they might get more serious and play-fight. 🐱