This is “Funny Clay Cats,” a site where Ms Risa Takahashi creates and demonstrates her one-of-a-kind art works of cats, those wonderful furry creatures that happen to share this planet with us.
This is also where she exhibits works by class participants and cat fanciers from around the world. How about trying your hand at making a clay cat and giving it a humorous title?
Ms. Takahashi published her first book on making clay cats in 2008. In the introduction to that book, she asks her readers:
“Have you ever felt you wanted to create a clay cat, but did not know how to go about it?” That book provided useful and easy-to-follow instructions to help you do that. Cats can use their facial features to express a wide variety of emotions and their lithe bodies to strike an infinite range of poses. They are an inexhaustible source of inspiration that should stimulate your creative juices. By combining simple shapes and using a spatula creating cats – in complex poses – is not as difficult as you might think. Cats sitting, sleeping, stretching or in other poses can be used as ideas for straps, photo frames or the like. You can make plaster molds to mass produce a cat you thought was particularly successful and have fun by painting them in different colors. But first you have to take a lump of clay and create your first cat.
And, before you realize it your house will be full of cats.
No, worries, no matter how many you make, they won’t need feeding or require a cat litter.
Source: “Making Your First Clay Cat””（Japanese book, Published on August 20, 2008 from Rutles Inc.)
