This picture is already 30 years old - this was one of the very first cat-themed pictures by Sergey Stelmashonok. It was shown for the first time at the exhibition of young artists’ works in the House of Cinema. But the exhibition frightened the comunist bosses so much, that one day after the opening ceremony it was hurriedly closed.
And now a true legend about the Chiefs of redskin cats.
The most inexorable cats in the world are the redskin ones... That is partially because of their ruby-red colour.
The thing is that they are very warlike, and if bulls are quite aggressive towards the red colour, red cats are aggressive towards all other colours.
And these cats would have conquered the whole universe, if only they were taller then three centimeters. That is also the reason why there is enough space for them on a tine island right in the middle of the blue sea.
Many years ago women had to put on corsets, which were like bird coops, hoop skirts, lacy collars, make luxuriant hair-dos in order to look beautiful… If we also remember that there were also veils, huge hats, fans, gloves, palanquins and heavy ...
How to draw a homo sapiens? Dot-n-dot, line-n-line – that’s a human being. It is easy with people. And if you draw a circle, two triangular and several lines (just like in a bar code) you can get a cat sapiens. Now, let us look closely at the face ...
Would you like to play with a cat? And if it were as big as a human being and you were as small as a cat? And what would happen if in this case a cat wanted to play with you… To roll you on the ground holding you with its sharp teeth, bring you into ...
Everyone knows of the healing properties of the fair sex. A woman can work magic upon a man and bring him back to life even without touching him. This skill is priceless. Especially now, when the doctors of the post-soviet countries sometimes have ...
Everyone knows cats can see in the dark. And if you light them up with a lantern for example you can see their eyes shining. Once the artist was asked why the eyes of the cat in the picture shine. "I don’t know," – said the shy artist, dropped his ...
The stained-glass windows of Notre Dame de Paris shine in the dark, they attracted people’s attention for hundreds of years. Many modern artists also created their stained-glass windows, for example Mark Chagall. But none of the artists made a cat ...
The great artist Kazimir Malevich had a cat names Square. It was huge, fat and grey. But Malevich was fond of looking for a black cat in a dark room that is why he used to paint his cat black (the artist simply didn’t have other colours). The cat ...
Nobody knows why cats are so wild about grass. Even the great science-fiction writer Clifford Simak who wrote "All Flesh Is Grass" doesn’t know that. But notice: it is not by chance that cats like to chew house plants – they seem to get green energy ...
It is known that cats can hunt at night. But in order to be successful one should spent a lot a lot of time lying-in-wait. While watching the surrounding area becomes kind of closer and it becomes part of your realm, you become the ruler, watching ...
People tend to idealize old times, and not without a reason: chivalry, beautiful gowns, bright life full of adventures. Still, even today we have an opportunity to scratch a romantic message to our Mistress, to perform a cat’s concert (serenade) ...
Cats and dragons have much in common. Ears, paws, claws, the ability to growl and spit – isn’t that enough? Cats are absolutely independent and they possess a unique ability to make their marble good for women, who immediately start being over-sweet ...
According to Egyptian beliefs, sphinx is a she, moreover SHE appeared to be oviparous. Sphinx eggs are very unusual: it’s not other sphinx’ that are hatched, it’s pyramids that are hatched. That’s why sphinx never breeded and now they are very rare. ...
Site Cats & Dreams features a collection of posters, images, drawings and illustrations by the Belarusian artist Sergey Stelmashonok. Sergey has been illustrating articles in different newspapers and magazines for many years but his main passion is depicting cats. Each and every cat in his images is special. Take a look and enjoy.