{"id":20391,"date":"2025-09-23T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:06:52","slug":"psychelic-kittens-waiting-to-meet-you-at-the-upcoming-elgin-county-studio-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20391","title":{"rendered":"Meet my psychelic kittens!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>September 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You cannot be named Art Studio Happy Cat and not paint cats regularly&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sometimes you start a painting with a completely serious plan. And then when the basic setup is ready, you change your mind&#8230; This is what happened with these two brand new paintings, that you will be able to see and even purchase during the upcoming Elgin County Studio Tour weekend on 27 &amp; 28 September! The countdown for that event has now started&#8230; Are you coming? I hope so!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what about these paintings? well, I was thinking of making one a Siamese cat and the other a Bengal, you know, the one with the leopard spots. But then that started to sound more and more like a boring pair of kittens. What else could I do? And then I saw a beautiful rainbow over St Thomas the other day and the answer came to me. Lets make 2 playful, psychedelic kittens in rainbow colours. To create the illusion of thermal scans, I merged the colours very subtly and before I knew it, the kittens came to life in a whole different way from the original design idea. The butterfly and the dragonfly flew in from my imagination as well &#8220;any likeness to a real creature is accidental&#8221;, as they put it sometimes. I hope you enjoy them. And I hope you will come out to see this colourful pair during the Studio Tour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM.png 661w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM-22x24.png 22w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM-33x36.png 33w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.40.49-PM-44x48.png 44w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a little video I made at the occasion of the tour&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicky Decorte @ Art Studio Happy Cat\" width=\"665\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-XQIRrVz8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM.png 759w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM-665x515.png 665w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM-24x19.png 24w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM-36x28.png 36w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-4.50.29-PM-48x37.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2025 You cannot be named Art Studio Happy Cat and not paint cats regularly&#8230;. Sometimes you start a painting with a completely serious plan. 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