“The Naked Maja Revisited” with apologies to Goya…
Well, as you might surmise, I actually AM for crastination, if necessary. For example, I put things off all the time by taking a nap. Some anthros do that, too, but mamma isn’t very good at napping except at nap time, and so HER crastination seems lately to last all day long. Remember when there was an art expo back in that other country last May, and mama and her friend, Mya’s maman, put their paintings in a really nice gallery in Port-Vendres and had a bang-up vernissage with lots of good eats and lots of visitors and it was more than fun, it was life-changing.
Well, okay, it’s true that mamma’s life was changed, but what it did was create a BIG EMPTY SPACE in her artistic endeavors. She keeps saying her muse has taken a vacation, whatever that is. The muse, that is, not the vacation. I KNOW what a vacation is because I am always on one, haha.
(Looks like a kabuki robe to me, whatever that is…)
But just today, mamma discovered that she could tape down some soft cardboard paper to protect our floors and then maybe put a canvas on top of that and maybe, just maybe, open a tube of paint! Wow. What a dynamic idea! Mamma, you get with it, you hear? I’ll pose for you, no problem. Just like that yogi you had as a model in college, I can stay in a great pose for hours and hours. But subject matter will have to be ‘sleeping kitty’, okay?
Or how about a little Eddy Munch rip-off?
No, huh? Okay, but I am NOT taking off my clothes!!!
We think you’re a great muse LouLou. Mommy throws down the plastic that her mattress comes in to purrtect our floors. but she hasn’t painted lately, she says she hasn’t had da time. big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
YES, mattress plastic! Funny you should mention that. A mattress arrived just yesterday to help our backs around here, mine, too, haha, and we saved the plastic. THANK YOU. Maybe your mama needs a mews, too….(Mary’s term).
That’s quite the pose in the first pic, Loulou. Are you gonna try out for Playcat magazine?
Well, centrefold is my wish, but they might put me back in the last pages….HEY, PLAYCAT MAG –a great idea.
We’re proud of you, Loulou. Stick to your guns and don’t take off your clothes. As for your mama, we’re glad her muse is coming back from vacation.
Well, as Mary called it, maybe a MEWS was in order. So funny
But of course your momma must know that you are the muse, right?! For there could be no other! I think it’s a splendid idea with that paper on the floor and paint. You could become the artist then & leave your signature! I see it would become a craze with humans to have a custom Loulou floors in their homes. Tee hee hee!
Hey, Valentine, what a GREAT idea for floor decorations. Just let us walk through the paint and then clean us up and we go on to the next house.
Sometime you just have to take it easy,xx Speedy
What a remarkable photo of your Loulou standing upright! Love the soft belly pictures. I have some of my cat too. Those are my favorite. It is the “nappy belly”.
Oh, confession time. I didn’t stand up…mama turned the photo to make it look like that, haha. Thank you! Are you a gift shop? Let us all know.
Well – VOILA!!! YOUR mama had the perfect muse right under her nose all along – YOU!!! And in so many forms – voluptuous, scheming, comedienne, cuddly – a treasure trove!!! And with her talent and skill – a piece of cake to do a masterpiece!! Or a series. Masterpiece Theatre? MY mama is muttering under her breath with a crazed look in her eye – just warn her against trying to do a Caravaggio. Mama seems to be draining the limoncello reserves as she tries to paint us in as Bacchus enablers. Whew. Good thing we’re around to keep an eye on them!!!!
Mya, it’s YOUR mama who can paint her way out of a Houdini underwater, chained prison. Your mama could paint in her sleep. Your mama could paint backwards and sideways!
Love that photo!
Have a super weekend…
Noodle and crew
Well, I hope EVERYONE reads your blog today. One of the best I’ve read. Thank you for bringing so many things into perspective, Noodle.
I thought you were her mews 🙂
Oh, you word rascal, you….LOVE that. YES, I AM HER MEWS!!! You and mama would be hell if you ever got together. I can hear the groans now from listeners….haha. But the pun is one of the highest forms of humor!
MOL ! Happy artsy Caturday ! Purrs
Hello, Swiss Cats. Every time I think of you I think of CHOCOLATE!!! Sprungli, for example….but I can’t have any. Sigh….
Oh LouLou – I hope your Mama gets her muse back. Her setup with the cardboard looks more like she plans to channel Jackson Pollock than Edward Munch !
Hey, a new art form….put up cardboard and splash the walls and floor. Boy, our landlord would LOVE that….
wow! how sweet…remembering me of my cat..!wow!