Over the past few months we’ve been featuring as much unique cat art as we can and this week is no different. We’ve already posted part 1 & part 2 of our stamp collection and this week it’s part 3.

Worldwide Mail

It’s fun to see how different (or similar) the stamps are between different countries. Needless to say Germany & Azerbaijan probably take the lead for the most kitty stamps (although Moldova is up there too). We expected to find lions & tigers & other big cats on more stamps, but to our surprise domestic cat seems to be a popular subject.
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Awhile back we posted part one of our cat stamps and it’s about time we posted another one. There are an amazing number of colorful & artistic stamps on the letters of the world.

Cats in the Mail

Although we’d love to get some of these stamps in the mail, we’d be loathe to use them. The artwork is fantastic and it’s interesting to see how each country represents their cat fancies. Interestingly enough, there are a larger % of animal stamps from Germany overall, but Moldova & Azerbaijan come in right on it’s tails.

Some of the art is serious, some of it whimsical, but all of it uses our feline friends as subjects.

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A few weeks back we featured a variety of cat stamps from around the world & it got us to thinking. Cats have been companions to mankind for thousands of years and should have made their mark on heraldry as well.

Theory Proven

As we started looking were were excited to see that there is a great variety of crests that use cats as symbols. And we aren’t even talking about lions & tigers, these all feature domesticated cats…kitty cats.
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We’ve already featured the small & medium cats and created a special post for our favorite the tiger and this week we’ve got some more of the big cats for your coloring pleasure.

Yours For The Taking

We love the public domain, as it allows us to bring you a level of high quality cat you can’t get anywhere else. We hunted long and hard to track these line drawings down so you better color a few of them & make them your own.
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A few weeks back we posted some tiger line drawings with the promise of more & here they are. We searched high and low & were able to come up with a great & varied collection of line art to show.

Make Them Your Own

Today we are featuring the smaller and medium sized cats (including the domestic kind & one strange lion creature) like the bobcat, lynx & serval. There are several sizes of each and they are just begging to be colored in & we say loose tradition, drawings don’t need camouflage…get colorful! If you like the big cats best, don’t worry we’ve got more than just tigers for you to color in.
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Cat art comes in all shapes & sizes and we are determined to bring you the most unique collections. So here is another piece of our cat art puzzle, stamps that feature our feline friends.

Majestic Cat

The stamps below are a good representation of cats as seen by countries around the world. It seems that some countries (like Germany) are far more prone to putting animals on their postage but we got as wide a collection as we could.
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There is something about cats that makes us want to capture their spirit (& sleek physique) in artistic ways. They are simply liquid motion and conveying that isn’t always easy.

Love Those Artists

Lucky for us, there are those out there who can capture cats they way they should be and they have created a great variety of line drawings of our feline friends. We’ll be sharing them all with you in the weeks to come, but today it’s all about our favorite…the tigers.
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Welcome to the final edition of our cats in art collection, were we find cool old cat art to share with you. If you haven’t seen them already, be sure to check out part 1 and part 2.

We’ve been moving on to art of some of the bigger cats and so far we’ve also posted a lion or two (or three). The artists & images we present to you come from all over the globe & span many cultures. It’s interesting to see how similarly (& tenderly) the cat is almost always portrayed.
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It’s official, artists love lions. We managed to find art from all over the globe depicting the strong and sultry cattiness of the king of the jungle.

It’s not just about lions, we’ve been doing a lot of art appreciating lately and have more to share. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first two parts in the series, Lion Art Pt. 1 & Pt. 2.
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It’s not hard to imagine why artists are drawn to subjects like lions. There is something quite regal about them and their slightly sneering nonchalance makes them seem larger than life.

We’ve visited lions in art before and we are going to do it again.
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