Artsy Fartsy Tuesday-Lou Belcher
I was introduced to Lou Belcher’s art by last weeks artist, Sheila. And then I thought…how come I have never ran across her blog before? We both have a pet blog, so therefore have the same interests and run in the same circles. But, it doesn’t matter much now, I found her art, and really like it!!
Lou Belcher lives in Florida and enjoys spending equal time on her writing and artistic endeavors. Known for painting whimsical cat faces, she also spends an equal amount of time on pen and ink drawings. She is part of the Riverview Art Studios and Gallery where she works almost daily. A portion of the proceeds from all her writing and art work goes to the SPCA of North Brevard.
Much of Lou’s time is spent writing. Her most recent book is a memoir of her cat called The Zen of Max (a memoir of great wisdom and many naps).
Lou has four active blogs. Two are personal blogs. One is about her cats:. Max, Bugsy and Knuckles. It chronicles their adventures and misadventures and is an outlet for her cat art. The other is to help writers learn their craft and is called Before You Write. She is also the editor of Brevard Art News and Florida Book News. She invented these two blogs to serve the creative community by spreading the word about writing and art events.
You will most often find Lou covered in paint and buried in fur. As she says, “That’s the way I like it. Life is good here in paradise.”
Lou is available to do portraits, more information can be found on her blog, Max the quilt cat. You need to visit the blog anyway, lots of cuteness going on over there.
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Lovely! Heading over to check out these new-to-me blogs. Thanks!
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You’re so welcome.
Does the gray cat up there look familiar? That’s CODY!!!! We have known Lou for nearly as long as we have been blogging!!! We LOVE that painting of Cody and we LOVE LOU! If you read Cat Chat you would have come across her (wink) !! I featured her painting a few weeks ago and I reviewed her fabulous book about 2 years ago. She is the BEST! So glad to see her here!
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I knew that was Cody!! She is awesome and we are so glad to feature her work.
How fabulous that she donates a portion to the SPCA. I’m obviously now a fan.
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Very cool!!
Wow, my cats were all over this post because of all the cats! Sounds like an interesting guy…mom is going to check out the before you write blog!
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I would love to have seen the cats, too funny!
Love her work!! Such talent!
~Higgins
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Very talented!
What a wonderful feature! I met Lou (virtually) a couple years ago during the Blogville Christmas Card Exchange. We even took Flat Max with us to Greyhounds At Gettysburg. I love her kitty art, but didn’t know about her other websites!
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That’s great, isn’t it funny how we “virtually” meet all these people.
She certainly does nice work. We’ve been followers of Max, Bugs, and Knuckles for quite a while and love looking at her paintings.
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I’m so out of the loop. BOL.
Those are just fantastic paintings, will pop over and take a look
Have a wonderful day xx00xx
Mollie and Alfie
You’ll like them.
Nice! I’ve seen the painting of that green-eyed grey tabby somewhere before – Not on their blog so it must be getting around and getting famous. :0)
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Well that’s pretty awesome!!
Roxy and Mary… Thanks so much for featuring my art today. It’s a thrill to be on your blog. And thanks to all the readers for the wonderful comments.
Have a great day.
Lou
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It was very much our pleasure!
I love this paintings. It makes me wish I was creative.
I wish I was creative too, but I do love looking at great art.
Absolutely gorgeous work! I’m a pet portrait artist as well, and I love painting cats. I love the way she got their eyes and expression. Beautiful!
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The eyes are great. You do awesome work too!!
Oh, you are just meeting Lou, Max, Bugsy and Knuckles?!? They have been one of my fave blogs since I started blogging. Lou’s artwork is fabulous and it always makes us smile!
*high paws*
Oz
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We love to find new blogs though, that’s always the fun part.
I agree! I love finding new blogs! You are going to love Lou, Max, Bugsy and Knuckles!
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She’s a great artist and we’re so proud that she also did my portrait.
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That must have been great!!
Nice jog profiling Lou today…What I saw in her 30 Cats in 30 Days was that each painting showcased a unique feline personality
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So true.
We love her work and her kitties are very special too!
The kitties are awesome!
Great paintings i will have to pop on over.
Sheba.
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Ooo, yes.
Your always finding sduch great art Roxxy, I think you guys should run a museum the museum of doggies!
Now that’s a fun idea!
HH painted our pictures and we LOVE them!! She is very talented!
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Brings a smile to my face. Happy art!