Cats on postcards - paintings and drawings

I like postcards with painted or drawn cats more better than photos. These pictures are small art species too. I have expressed my enthusiasm for this kind of cards in my profile therefore I receive cat cards fairly often. I show some of my favourites here.

Painting by Anna Hollerer-Wischin is so cute. These two adorable kitten are similar to my sweet cats, Zingiber and Pimpinella. I would like to get more card painted by A. Hollerer-Wischin! I didn't found any information about the artist. The card was sent from Turku, Finland by an lovely woman marjakaarina in September 2013.

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Other card with a similar black cat arrived from Germany (Veronika) in December 2013. It has a title: "Philipp on the Farm". The black tomcat Philipp seems to like watching and hunting wild birds. Information about the artist Kathia Bereger can't be found.

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An old favourite from Russia is "The Cat and the Ship" by Tatyana Glushchenko. This cat is a real proud night street-fighter living in the harbour. It is free and full of confidence. Tatyana Glushchenko painted more beautiful pictures about black cats: RU-1343229, RU-1458503. She is a Russian artist, designer and writer. She lives and works in Moscow. The card (sent by Darya) arrived in February 2013.

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I got a great card from Taiwan in May 2013. There is from postcard series "Cats and Railway". Jiufen is a small town in Taiwan. It is a popular weekend getaway for Taipei residents and a tourist attraction. The four cats in front of the old Chinese buildings are wild homeless felines. Fifi, the sender of the postcard helped me to translate the title of the picture. Thanks!

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Beautiful card from Japan was received also in February 2013. It was painted by Yumeji Takehisa. I like it because of presenting a black cat and being typical Japanese. Yumeji Takehisa (竹久 夢二, 1884 – 1934), was a Japanese poet and painter. He never studied drawing in any painting school nor under any teacher formally. He hated the concept of the "artist", feeling they were rather pretentious which unsurprisingly upset many of the artists of his time, leading to poor reviews from the so-called elite. Mitsuyo, a very active postcrosser sent me this nice card.

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Last card in this post is a lovely postcard from Belarus. Yes, I love white cats too! The "Fluffy Bliss" is a pastel drawing by Annet Loginova. Loginova likes to draw cats and other adorable animals. Alena, who sent me this postcard, is in Postcrossing not active yet.

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Perfect day!

Many postcrossers are on holiday. I think some sent postcards arrived but they are not registered because of the recipients are not at home. This Monday was a perfect day. One of my sent card arrived to Japan. It is a lovely cat card with two cute red tabby kittens.

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I'm at home and I wait every day for postcards from all around the world. Today I have found four postcards in my postbox. All four cards are from my wishlist. The first one came from Belgium.

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It is an interesting card. There is a sculpture of Damien Hirst, an artist from United Kingdom. He was born in 1965. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He made the series "Medicine Cabinets". These sculptures are glass-cabinets packed with pharmaceutical packaging. "Sinner" is the first work in Hirst’s series of "Medicine Cabinets". There is portrait of his grandmother, Eileen Brennan, taken through the drug packaging she left to him, on his request, on her death. Three great stamps are on the Belgian postcard.

Spotted Nutcracker - fenyőszajkó (Nucifraga caryocatactes) occurs in Europe and Asia. Ginkgo biloba is a special tree and a popular medicinal plant. I have written about this plant in my post on 10 January, 2013. Third stamp was issued on the 100th anniversary of Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique (31 July, 2013).

Second card is from Germany. It is a funny painted cat. There isn't any information on the back-side about the picture.

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Lot of stamps are on the card. Two of them are colourful flower stamps. There are Crocus and Pulsatilla.

Third postcard is a Flower Fairy card. I like these series very much. I has a post (29 January 2013 ) about lovely Fairies of Cicely Mary Barker. This picture is from the book Flower Fairies of the Wayside, 1948. Rush-Grass and Cotton-Grass Fairies are two little boy on  adventure expedition.

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There are beautiful stamps on the lovely card from the Netherlands.

All four colourful stamps are related to children books. 1st and 3rd are from series Child welfare, 1980. The 2nd one is a funny Christmas stamp from 1991. The 4th one is from series Child welfare, Joost Swarte comics, 1984. 

I received the forth postcard from Finland.

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The picture was painted by Rolf Lidberg. Troll kid studying his water-wheel moved nailing hammer. So cute! Rolf Lidberg Jonas, (1930-2005), a Swedish artist and botanist. He was best known for his paintings and books with paintings of trolls depicting old life at Indalsälven, before the river was extended. Lidberg great interest was botany, especially orchids and fungi. He traveled around Europe to paint and draw of vegetation. My 2nd Lidberg card with a nice flower stamp was sent from a Postcrossing meeting. 

I got earlier an other Rolf Lidberg card from Finland. Theme: trolls studying a wild-orchid. Depicktion of the orchid is very realistic.

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Cats on cards - photos

In November of  2011 I found two black kittens on the street. They suffered from hunger and cold. I made a home for them in November 2011. The start of our “family life” didn't go easy, because they were very afraid of humans and didn't know toilet etc. Now they are totally domesticated.  They got their names after the Latin names of two medicinal plants. The both cats have a “spicy” Latin names. The sweet she cat is Pimpinella (anise) and the naughty tomcat is Zingiber (ginger). I love my cats and I like postcards and stamps with cats and kittens.

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She-cat Pimpinella (2013)

It's no wonder I like cat cards very much. Above all paintings and drawings with black cats. There are my cat cards received by Postcrossing. 

The first one is one of my favourites in spite of it is a photo. Title is Simon. He is a beautiful old style Siamese. My parents have a very similar cat. His name is Simi and he is 19 years old. Every day with him is a present for my mother. My father also love him very much. This card came from the Netherlands. I like it!

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I like not all cat cards. Artificial photos like the second cat card received in January 2013 from Japan is too kitschy and not so lovely.

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This photo received from Finland is also artificial:

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The next card is kitschy too, but the kitten on it is adorable. I got it from Sweden. It will be better without text.

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This photo of a tabby kitten from Germany is more natural.

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This simple photo of a Siamese kitten and a tabby cat is lovely. The card is from Germany.

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The last postcard of this note is my absolute favourite. It is a retouched photo from Germany. Eyes of a beautiful black cat like my dear Pimpinella. Oh, sooo great!

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In my next note I will show painted and drawn cats on postcards.

Five sent cards

Now about my last five sent cards. This multiview was sent to Finland. The addressee is a gardener and she likes nature (trees, flowers, animals, mushrooms, etc.). On this card are typical mushrooms of a small forest near of Szeged: 1. Common morel (Morchella esculenta) 2. Common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum) 3. Shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus) 4. Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) 5. Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) 6. Earthstar species (Astraeus sp.).  This small forest belong to the Forestry School "Albert Bedő" in Ásotthalom. This school issued some similar postcards. All there are nice!

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Earlier I sent a similar card  to Canada. On this you can see the most common animals to hunt living in the School Forest, Ásotthalom: 1. Red deer (Cervus elaphus), 2. European hare (Lepus europaeus), 3. European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), 4. Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), 5. Wild boar (Sus scrofa), 6. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes). The card traveled 15 days and liked only by two postcrossers.

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On the mushroom card I pasted a stamp from the National Gallery miniature sheet. There is a painting made by Károly Ferenczy. Title is "October". Ferenczy (1862-1917) was a Hungarian painter. He studied in Rome, Munich and Paris. He was a member of an artists’ colony in Nagybánya, in what is now Rumania, from 1896 to 1906. Ferenczy was one of the leading Hungarian landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works, noted for their highly ornamental color schemes and composition, include genre scenes, as well as landscapes and numerous compositions depicting scenes from the Gospels and other books of the Bible.

On 13th January I sent not only the mushroom card. The second one is a beautiful art card. I bought it in Vienna in May, 2012. Title: "Stars for Two". I like painted cats very much. These two are particularly among my favourites, because there are two black cats. There are similar to my cats. My cats are about 17 months old. For one year ago they lived with on the street and they suffered from hunger and cold. In November of 2011 I made a home for them. The start of our "family life" didn't go smoothly, because they were afraid of humans and  didn't know toilet etc. Now they are totally domesticated. All the lovely naive pictures of the Austrian artist Rosina Wachtmeister are beautiful. I would like to receive some similar cards! I sent this glittering postcard to a 27 year old Taiwanese artist. The half of the miniature sheet Porcelain Manufacture Herend was sent as stamps with the two black cats.

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On 15th January I have written two cards. One of them is an old card, printed in the 1970s. There is the Castle of Somoskő. It was built in North Hungary in the 14th century and destroyed in time of Turkish regime in the 17th century. Now the Hungarian-Slovakian border is between the village Somoskő and the castle, therefore the ruins belong to Slovakia.

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I send it to the Netherlands. The addressee collects stamps, therefore I picked out three great stamps. On the big stamp is a colourful hand-made embroidery typical of region of Kalocsa, a town in South Hungary. White-tailed Eagle is an endangered bird species of Hungary. On the third stamp is a Mayan sculpture. It was issued in 1992, on the 500th anniversary of discovery of America.

The other card written on 15th was sent to Canada. It is a typical tourist card from Szeged. There is the Roman Catholic Votive Church dedicated to “Our Lady of Hungary” by night. This building is the symbol of Szeged. It is the 4th biggest cathedral of Hungary. It was built between 1913 and 1930 to give thanks for survival the great flood of Tisza River in 1879.

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The 5th card was sent to a 10 years old girl. She lives in Ukraine and she speaks Russian and English. Her parents are sure to help her to write and read English cards. I wrote my message in Russian. It was a hard work, because I have forgotten what I learned in school. I like to write Cyrillic letters particularly characters differing from our letters, e.g. ж, я, ю, ы, ч, ш, л. I think children are not postcrossing-machines and they are really happy to received cards. The little girl like painted cats therefore I picked out a lovely cat card issued by UNICEF.

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The cute cat fly to Donetsk with these three stamps. The middle one is a well known Hungarian painting and part of the National Gallery miniature sheet. "Picnic in May" painted by Pál Szinyei Merse is a beautiful picture.This Painting was on my postcard HU-43409 sent to Belarus one year ago.

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On 15th January one of my sent card (HU-52612) arrived in Thailand. I have written about it on 4th January, 2013.

Beginning my Blog

I'm member of Postcrossing for 529 days. It is a great hobby. Sending a postcard is really amusing pastime. I'm so excited when I'm clicking "Send a postcard" button to get a new address. I read more than once the profile of the receiver to choice the most suitable postcard for him or her. Writing the text is also an enjoyable task. The best moment is to get a message about the receiving my card after a long travel. Receiving a postcard is also a great feeling of course! Every workday I open my postbox expecting for postcards.

Today I have received three cards!

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I put the Mucha card from USA to my favourites. I like Art Nuoveau style so much! I would like to visit the Mucha Museum in Prague someday. The two Christmas stamps are also great.

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The Persian cat in the gift box is cute but I like the painted or drowned cats more better. I like the stamps of this card.

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I'm sorry but I didn't found the title of the third card painted by the Dutch mouth and foot painter Pieter de Leur (1923-2010). (Ow, it was not easy to insert pictures in the blog! Now they are OK!)

Since July 2011 I have received 198 postcards and send 201. I would like to write about postcards obtained and posted earlier too.
Yesterday I sent a card to Czech Republic. The user is a Japan-fan, so I picked up this card for her:

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It is a beautiful Japanese painting made by Kano Tanyu. He was one of the foremost Japanese painters of the Kano school. Kano painters often worked on a large scale, painting nature scenes of birds, plants, water, or other animals on sliding doors or screens, covering the background with gold leaf. This card is one of the 12 postcards of an UNICEF calendar. There are pictures of two Japanese painter: Kano Tanyu (1602-1674) and Yamamoto Soken (1683-1706).

One of the stamps is specific the others the common "chair-stamps". The colouful one is an altarpiece from the collection of the 50 years old Hungarian National Gallery. Title: "The Mystical Betrothal of St. Catherine" (from the Batthyány Collection of Németújvár). It was painted by tempera on wood about 1490.

My first card sending by Postcrossing was "Wild flowers" painted by Hungarian mouth painter  Erzsébet Czibolya. It is a popular card favourited by 15 Postcrossers. I like the colours of this card. Poppy is one of  my favourite plants.

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All my sent cards are scanned. To the picture I note the ID, the address and also the text of my card. It is useful when a card lost and I want to send a new one. A note in the file looks like this: