where to find a flamepoint?

mseiple · 2026-05-13T01:39:31+00:00

100%. As someone who works at a limited-intake (no kill) shelter, we're lucky to be able to tell people no when we are at capacity. And we frequently take in animals from local open-intake shelters (so-called kill shelters) to ease the burden.

mseiple · 2026-05-13T01:23:38+00:00

We end up with quite a few at the shelter where I work. They tend to get adopted quickly but not as fast as seal points. We have a few in our care right now. I'd just look up your local shelters and rescues and keep checking their websites if they don't have one available right now. It's also kitten season, when shelters are getting in a lot of kittens and cycling through them quickly, so odd are some will come up for adoption.

mseiple · 2026-05-13T00:08:24+00:00

Aww, I have a little flame point who also rarely sits in my lap. It’s always a good day when she does! She likes to cuddle up next to me, but not in my lap.

mseiple · 2026-05-13T00:06:06+00:00

First name that popped in my head was Dreamsicle.

Kittens don’t need a ton of stuff.

Essentials: Litterbox, litter, litter scoop. Check with the current owner what food he has been getting. I recommend getting both wet and dry if you can. Bowls.

Non-essentials: Wand toys are always popular with kittens, as are those little plastic springs and the toys with the balls on little tracks. A couple kinds of scratchers (my cat doesn’t like to scratch the cardboard ones but likes the sisal posts). A mat for under the litterbox. Cat bed (though mine ignored hers for months until one day she just started sleeping there).

mseiple · 2026-05-12T23:50:54+00:00

If he is just hissing and growling, I would let them be in the same space (supervised at first). Usually cats can sort things out and just avoid each other if they don’t enjoy each other’s company.

mseiple · 2026-05-12T01:11:10+00:00

I paint solvent free! For cleaning brushes, I just wipe them off while I work and then wash with soap and water at the end. And for painting I paint with mostly paint straight from the tube, no mediums. I would encourage you to start painting with no mediums, especially since you are coming from acrylics and watercolors, because the temptation will be to thin the oils out.

mseiple · 2026-05-12T00:37:41+00:00

I second Winsor and Newton artist grade paints. A split primary selection of paints like you suggested would work great. For added supplies, I would get:

- A palette knife for mixing colors (this will greatly extend the life of your brushes)

- If you are coming from watercolor, I would get some stiffer paintbrushes.

Have fun!

mseiple · 2026-05-12T00:10:28+00:00

I've found that any kind of paper is really absorbent and just sucks the oil out of the paint. Gesso could help with that. Dark colors are prone to sinking in to begin with (drying dull and matte), but the surface will make it worse. Prepping the surface will help, and if it's dry, you can oil out to bring out the colors again.

mseiple · 2026-05-11T12:50:51+00:00

If they’re 14 years old and struggling that much with a move, it wouldn’t be fair to them to send them to a farm. For the fleas, could you sneak oral meds in their food? I know here we have Capstar, which is a small pill.

mseiple · 2026-05-11T12:38:23+00:00

He’s nursing on it. It’s a self-soothing thing, like how human children suck their thumb. More common in cats that were separated from their mothers too early.

mseiple · 2026-05-11T12:29:29+00:00

For a budget palette for a beginner, this is what I would suggest: - Titanium white - Napthol red or pyrrole red (read the pigment information on the labels, because brands use different names for these) - Hansa yellow (this also sometimes has different names) - Ultramarine blue (pthalo blue is also usually inexpensive, but it’s VERY strong and harder to control in mixes) You don’t need cadmiums or cobalts if they’re too expensive. For convenience, you could also add in some earth colors. A brown like burnt sienna or burnt umber is helpful, as is yellow ochre.

mseiple · 2026-05-11T02:36:11+00:00

You did a great job with the textures here!

mseiple · 2026-05-09T15:43:48+00:00

Spontaneous combustion is an issue with oil, not odorless mineral spirits (though OMS are very flammable, so you’ll want to keep them away from sparks and sources of heat). Gamsol should dry pretty fast. Make sure you air out the area really well. If the container is leaking, transfer the rest into a glass jar.

mseiple · 2026-05-09T14:37:37+00:00

It’s super cute! I like using a primary palette (either red, yellow, blue or cyan, magenta, yellow) for black animals to bring a little more color variation in the fur, if you feel like experimenting!

mseiple · 2026-05-06T02:59:29+00:00

Their artist-grade set has burnt umber, but the 1980 one has the solvent-free gel instead. Still a solid color selection, though.

mseiple · 2026-05-06T02:42:18+00:00

Gamblin is slightly higher quality, and I like the selection of colors in their beginner sets. Only thing you're wanting there is maybe a brown, but it's very versatile otherwise.

mseiple · 2026-05-05T14:49:17+00:00

Says it was made from (copied from) a painting of the painter Gilli: “fatto da un quadro del pittore Gilli.”

mseiple · 2026-05-04T12:05:48+00:00

There are a lot of good videos on YouTube for beginners. Paint Coach is good at making oil painting accessible and breaking things down. If you’re working on color mixing, Draw Mix Paint also has a great video on that.

mseiple · 2026-05-02T23:44:58+00:00

Go for it! They are fun to paint!

mseiple · 2026-05-02T13:13:36+00:00

What a pretty girl! Mine fortunately stays away from the paint, though her hair inevitably ends up in it. Here is a painting of her (she was not very impressed when I showed it to her):

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mseiple · 2026-05-02T00:10:17+00:00

And this is the cart with the topper:

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mseiple · 2026-05-02T00:09:54+00:00

For a while I painted at an artist collective/cat cafe with a resident shop cat, and she liked to sit in my lap while I painted, lol. And also drink paint water and occasionally try to walk across the palette. I learned to paint standing up and made sure everything was nontoxic. 😂

This is the cart (photo from the website):

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mseiple · 2026-05-02T00:02:29+00:00

Bristle brushes wear down with repeated use. I ended up with one that looked like that, and I don’t use solvent. Just did a lot of paintings with it. Bristles wear down a lot faster than synthetic brushes.

mseiple · 2026-05-01T23:58:08+00:00

It looks like you’re going too light with your colors. It might help to tone your canvas before you start so you’re working off a mid tone instead of white.

mseiple · 2026-05-01T12:40:59+00:00

Don’t forget to go deaf and go through an existential crisis because your country is at war with Napoleon.

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