Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: cats

  • The night before the rest of her life

    This painting is from an old photo of one of my high school classmates. She is holding her favorite cat, named Dog. It is the night before her wedding to the man she made her life with. She looks so dreamy and romantic, and just a little insecure. The perfect bride. This painting is not…

  • Y is for yellow-eyed cat

    Thank you for reading my previous posts about endangered and threatened small wild cats (the letters B, F, I, K, L, M, O, P, and R). Together, with a little knowledge, we are taking the first steps to help them to continue to exist. But this time we’ll talk about a domestic cat. What can…

  • Whimsy cats

    When I started painting watercolors I hit on a theme, “whimsy cats” and painted dozens of them. Based on my patient and wise cat, Enza, I painted them all from the rear view, looking immense from an ant’s eye view in the tall grass. All of them are small, postcard sized or a little larger,…

  • Rusty Spotted Cat – the smallest cat species in the world!

    We’ve seen Sand Cats, Andean Cats, Kodkod, and the Blackfooted cat. But this little cat who weighs in at just over 2 pounds fully grown is the smallest of the small. Native to India and Sri Lanka, where they are seriously threatened by humanity, this little cat is barely holding on. They are opportunist and…

  • Oncilla baby

    The Oncilla, or Leopardus Tigrinus is a small species of wildcat that is considered vulnerable. It lives in dense forested areas, those very same areas that are being clearcut all over the Amazon for slash and burn farming, but they are spread out in a number of countries, including Costa Rica, which treasures them. It…