See more here or at Ishida's site.

Good find by Tim, via wood s lot

You can buy them as 16 x 20 prints at the WonderBros Etsy store.

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Cabinet Magazine's most recent issue featured a series of paintings by the English artist Louis Wain, who painted thousands of pictures of cats. Wain was committed to a mental hospital in 1924 after showing signs of schizophrenia. Many psychologists believe the increasing severity of Wain's mental illness can be seen in his paintings, though others claim the paintings are just reflecting patterns from his mother's textiles. See for yourself:

All images copyright the Archives and Museum of Bethlem Royal Hospital.

H.G. Wells once said of Wain:

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

More on Wain can be found here, here, and here.

This post is in memory of my beloved family cat Mister Ham, who passed away yesterday.

See more of Helmut Smits at his website. Photos by Lotte Stekelenburg. Via.

I find these (small) paintings by Milanese artist Maurizio Bongiovanni captivating.

Bird rib, 2010

Bird rib, 2008

Bird rib, 2008

See more of Maurizio's work on his Flickr Photostream. Via.