Spring arrived last night at 6:45 p.m. EDT. We didn’t recognize it. We had a grey and rainy day and the temp was in the low 40s. A few blooming crocuses do not scream, “spring.”
With all of that in mind, Mom decided to recycle an old photo of Mauricio that was taken for Cat Scouts. If it screams anything, it is “embarrassment.” But it also makes us think of springtime.
As we are entering Athena and Marie’s Caturday Art Blog Hop, this photo needed some enhancement.
Mom thought the hat had a vintage look and so wanted to give the photo the same look. Using PicMonkey, she used four different effects to create our submission for this week. First she added a paper effect at 94 percent saturation, followed by an edifice effect at 90 percent saturation. The next step was to add a smudge effect at 102 percent saturation and a Plumbe Daguerreotype. Finally she put it on a black background with photo corners as it might have been displayed in an old photo album.
When adding the photo to the post, however, she decided it was too dark and added some fill light in Picasa.
Did you notice Mauricio’s doppelgänger over his left shoulder? It’s one on Mom’s panda stuffies. If Mau wants to hide, he just has to dive into a pile of them. He probably wishes he could do that right now seeing himself in this hat again.
If you would like to join the blog hop or view the other submissions, click on Athena and Marie’s badge. This really is one of our favorite blog hops as it gives us the opportunity to try new things and show our creativity. Consider letting your imagination take over and create something different and interesting to share on the blog hop.
Speaking of blog hops…tomorrow is Sunday. We sure hope y’all have been practicing your selfies and are ready to show yourselves off tomorrow. Giulietta will be representing for us. We were just short of 60 entries again last week. Let’s see if we can get there tomorrow. Until then…Happy Spring with
Purrs and paw-pats , Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
MOL! That is the best photo of Mau ever. So hilarious. Sorry buddy… we are laughing WITH you, not AT you… 😉
Hope Spring arrives for real very soon!
Sampy sends a zillion kisses to Astrid. Love from all of us.
You look fantastic! We love the effects!!!
~Annabelle,Boo,Ping,Jinx
One of the things Allie loves about Mau is that he’s such a good sport!!!!
The Florida Furkids with special smoochies to Mau from Allie
We don’t have an art blog hop, we just have a Happy Caturday linky party and we would love for you to join us!
Yo Mau, nice ha-ha-hat! You can use that on straw hat day.
Love your hat…suits you my friend.
Kitty Kisses,
Kali
Mau, buddy, you look very suave and debonair! *sniggers*
Dude thee hat..it iss so a hat!!! Oh Mauricio yur so brave wearin a aht an wee appurrsheatess thiss as our spring iss a big bust too!! Cloudy…then snow…then rain…then more clouds an wee are at 28 Fairenhite an windy an gray an PICKERELL when will thiss Spring reelly arrive???
*sighss* Mee iss goin back to sleep…. ))))YAWNSS((((
Yurss Siddhartha Henry =^,.^=
Nice art work and lovely hat ! Purrs
Mauricio, you are pawsitively adorable!!! It doesn’t look or feel much like spring here, either 🙁
Awwwwww, that is a fabulous art picture 🙂
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ
That is a lovely effect.
LOVE the hat – such an aristocat…
Very nice art, that is too funny that Mauricio can hide in the pandas.
That’s really great! Love it!
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
Aw! Wes thinks he looks like a prince in a fairy tale!
Kisses
Nellie
You look quite mysterious !
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That is some cool hat!!!
Mau looks great! We’re still waiting for spring to get here. Guess spring didn’t get the memo.
love da hat!
Vintage purrfection..what a great effect..Looking good Mau..even if it is a little embarrassing 🙂 big hugs Fozziemum xx
Mauricio and mom Janet we love the way the picture turned out. My mom loves old photos and this is beautiful.
Happy Caturday to all and Nose Kisses to me sweetie Ms Lisabeth.
That is a cool effect. Happy spring pal.
Nice one and happy first day of Spring to you too. Have a super Saturday.
Best wishes Molly.
That is cool art – it looks like a hand painted black and white photo.
Happy Spring! Our first day of spring was rainy too.
What a lovely…um handsome cat in a spring hat!
That vintage picture turned out great!
We see it! We see it! And now we know your secret weapon, Mau – hiding with the pandas! *giggle!*