# Help me choose which cat photos to paint
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 15, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357 "2010-08-15T21:56:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/1 "2010-08-15T21:56:34Z")
I am doing a series of paintings of cats (about to start, anyway) and I need help figuring out which pictures I should base paintings on. Here are my cat photos:
[http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/)
I’m looking for more lighthearted stuff. I’m starting with this one:
[http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Cory/kitty\_costumes\_0002.jpg.html](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Cory/kitty_costumes_0002.jpg.html)
So if you have a few minutes to poke through my photos and choose some you think would be good paintings, I’d appreciate it! Thanks!
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/2 "2010-08-15T22:38:36Z")
How many are you looking for? Are you looking for some sort of theme beyond “light-hearted”?
I love [this](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Inkspot/F0000123.jpg.html)one, despite it’s fuzziness. And [this](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Inkspot/F0000149.jpg.html)one!
[This](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/pixie/security_fairy_ferocious.jpg.html)one goes well with the one you’ve already selected.
And [this](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/pixie/pixie_found_something.jpg.html)triptych.
Cute cats!
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/3 "2010-08-15T22:41:46Z")
I like the ferocious security fairy one.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/4 "2010-08-16T01:00:30Z")
Pixie’s a cutie but I love that look of mischief and feigned innocence on Cory’s face.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/5 "2010-08-16T01:06:45Z")
Good call on the security fairy. I’ll definitely do that one!
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### Author:  [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/6 "2010-08-16T01:08:24Z")
Well, I’m partial to anything Ronon since you posted that adorable video on YouTube…so I’ll take the opp to ask how’s he(?) doing??
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/7 "2010-08-16T01:22:49Z")
He’s doing great! He’s huge and fluffy these days, but he still does that “raaar” thing where he puts both paws in the air and waves them around like he’s gonna getcha. He and Cory wrestle all the time. He and Pixie chase each other through the house at full speed (which is hilarious on hardwood).
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/8 "2010-08-16T01:35:23Z")
ooooh water for me! (Ronon)
Cat box (Cory)
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### Author:  [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/9 "2010-08-16T01:47:26Z")
Definitely [this one](http://i.imgur.com/T3Zox.jpg)
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/10 "2010-08-16T03:12:13Z")
Opal, love Milo, Claude, and Ding. Sweet kitties!
If you need more inspiration-- I volunteer at a great no-kill cat shelter run by another talented artist gal: [www.goathouserefuge.org](http://www.goathouserefuge.org) So many great kitty faces there!
And, we’re looking toward publishing a Gazette magazine in the next year featuring cat specific art… are you interested?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/11 "2010-08-16T13:02:03Z")
elelle: possibly! I’d need more information…
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/12 "2010-08-16T13:58:16Z")
The one(s) of the kitty in the [blue cape](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Cory/kitties_january08_038.jpg.html) [standing up](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/Miscellaneous/Animals/Cats/Cory/kitties_january08_037.jpg.html) would make a great flying superman picture.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/13 "2010-08-16T14:54:33Z")
I adore the picture of Pixie on the deck or whatever. Love the cuteness and the composition.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-which-cat-photos-to-paint/550357/14 "2010-08-16T23:15:42Z")
> [@kittenblue](#):
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> I adore the picture of Pixie on the deck or whatever. Love the cuteness and the composition.
The triptych mentioned above? That’s a definite possibility…