I am so excited to share my fun adventures with you! In my new coloring book, I fly an airplane, watch some birds on a wire with my pal Okey, enjoy some cocktails on the beach, throw back a few BREWS, do some paintin’ at my artist easel, do a bit of politickin’, work a bit of magic as a wizard, cruise BREW CITY in my convertible, share a romantic dinner with you, and have a lot more fun!

Here are some sample pages from the coloring book:

I would love fur you to add your color to my adventures! Watcha” waitin’ fur? Order your coloring book now!

Oh yeah, and please share your colorings so others can see on my Facebook page and on Twitter. Happy coloring!!!

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

My human and I are gonna collaborate again. She’s decided to use me as her creative muse again. I think I  can handle this.

I like adventures, and my human, Artist BZTAT likes to draw pictures of me. It’s a good partnership.

BZTAT made an adult coloring book this past summer, and it’s been selling like TUNA. I mean, WOW! Lotsa folks have gone nuts over Artist BZTAT’s Color Me Cats Coloring Book! There’s just one thing wrong with that book. It only has one picture of ME in it.

After a bit of pushin’ her, she has agreed to make her follow-up book ALL ABOUT ME.

Just Meowin’ with Brewskie Butt – Adult Coloring Book with Art by BZTAT is on the drawing board, folks, and its gonna be filled with drawings of my adventures. These will be drawings that you can color yerself. How cool is that?

I can hardly wait! Woohoo!

Here’s a sample image from the coloring book.

We’ll be selling it right here at Just Meowin’. Pre-orders will start soon. Stay tuned!

If you haven’t purchased yer copy of BZTAT’s first coloring book, you can get it here. You can see her other artworks at her BZTAT Studios website.

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

Here is one of me. (She likes to take pix of me whenever I am doing my most favorite thing.)

Crashed. No more brews for the Brew. #BrewskieButt #cats #catart #catlover #catsofinstagram #catphotography #bztatart

A photo posted by BZTAT (@bztat) on Apr 12, 2015 at 8:30am PDT

Here is one of Okey…. (Snoozing is her favorite thing too.)

“Sweet Dreams” Okey doing what she does best. Get a portrait of your pet: www.bztatstudios.com #okey #cats #catart #catlover #catphotography #catsofinstagram #originalart #custompetportraits #digital #pets #petart #petportrait #bztatart   A photo posted by BZTAT (@bztat) on Mar 29, 2015 at 10:22am PDT

Here is one of Mia Meow… (She’s always alert and chasing something.)

Another #MiaMeow portrait. She’s just #toodamnedcute! #cats #catart #catlover #catphotography #catsofinstagram #petphotography #digitalart

A photo posted by BZTAT (@bztat) on Feb 22, 2015 at 7:50pm PST

Here is one of Who… (I appreciate his efforts to wake the sleeping giant so we can get breakfast.)

“Breakfast? Now? Please?” #who #cats #catart #catlover #catphotography #catsofinstagram #petphotography #digitalart #bztatart

A photo posted by BZTAT (@bztat) on Mar 3, 2015 at 9:07am PST

And here is one of Noah. (Purring in his own little Noah world.)

My real Noah man sitting in his Noah land… #noah #cats #catart #catsofinstagram #catphotography #petart #petphotography #digitalart #custompetportrait #bztatart

A photo posted by BZTAT (@bztat) on Jan 26, 2015 at 7:12am PST

Now you have seen my whole crew.

She can do a digital portrait fur you too! She can make it and print it fur you, or she can email the digital image to you and you can print it yerself. How cool is that?

She does a lot of other portraits and fun artworks as well. Visit my human’s website to see about getting yer portrait or just to see some cool art. And if yer on Instagram, follow her there and see artwork photos hot off the press.

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

Yo. It’s that day that comes around once a year where we celebrate one of the greatest things that ever happened. Yep, it’s my birthday. I was born some eleven years ago, or thereabouts.

Truth be told, No one knows the exact date I came into this world, but it was sometime in April, so April Fool’s Day seems to be the best day to go with.

Not that I am a fool, or nothin’. I can be a bit of a prankster, though.

Humans celebrate birthdays like crazy. They throw parties, eat cake, share presents, and have all kinds of fun.

Betty White had a flash mob on her birthday.

I and my Twitter pals once held a Paw Pawty on Twitter fur my birthday that lasted 24 hrs and included critters from all over the world. After that, it grew into a big thing where there was a Paw Pawty every month to raise money fur animal rescues. There are still Paw Pawties happening on Twitter all the time.

My human has been yappin’ at me because I have grown lazy as her brand manager. Apparently she expects ME to do her marketing fer her.

*yawn*

What does she expect? I mean, she hardly draws pictures of me anymore. She’s always drawin’ pictures of other cats.

I gotta admit. I kinda like this one. But, ya know, if she keeps with this theme of drawin’ over newstype, I think she should draw one of me.

Just meowin’.

If you like the drawing, you can read more about it here.

*yawn*

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

You may have heard the news that has shattered some folks’ illusions: “Hello Kitty is not a cat.”  Seriously. Is anyone surprised? Why is everyone upset?

Not all characters are based on real life individuals, and the ever popular “Hello Kitty” design is completely fictional. It’s no different than Charlie Brown or Garfield.

The more astounding news that has not been reported, however, is that the creator of “Hello Kitty”, Japanese artist Yuko Shimizu, made no profit from her design. She created the design as a “work for hire” project while working at the Japanese company Sanrio, who has reaped millions of dollars from products featuring the feline image.

That is very sad to me. I think that artists should benefit from their creativity as well as the companies who merchandise their designs into products. Although I think companies should prosper from partnering with artists in mutually beneficial licensing arrangements, I think the artists should get a fair shake.

My human is an artist, and she draws pictures of me. They are sorta cartoony, and there could be some confusion about them. So to clear that up, I want to say to you, unequivocally, BREWSKIE BUTT IS A CAT.

A real live, furry and in the flesh CAT. Not fictional. REAL.

So there. I said it.

And so you know, it is the dream of this cat and his artist human that someday, Brewskie Butt, TM will be every bit as prosperous and popular as the FICTIONAL “Hello Kitty”character via licensing agreements that make both the production company and the artist very wealthy. And make me the richest cat around, as well.

If you’d be interested in making some products featuring my gorgeous image or artworks created by my human, please contact us. We’d love to meow with ya about it.

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

Hi there. It’s the Brew. What’s happenin’ in yer part of the world?

A lot has been happenin’ in mine. I moved again!

I’ll be honest, I don’t like movin’ much. But now that the actual process of goin’ from one place to another is over, I am pretty happy with the result.

We moved from a rather small and dank house in an urban neighborhood in Canton, OH to a spacious house in a suburban neighborhood in Alliance, OH. I gotta say, I am likin’ the place very much!

First of all, it has these wonderful windows! Although we are in a neighborhood, the houses are not very close together, and there is lots of foliage around. It seems more like we are in the woods than in a neighborhood.

Second, there are 3 bathrooms, which means I can sink-sit in 3 different places! I love to sink-sit. It’s like they make those things to fit my body purrfectly.

There’s lotsa room fur my human BZTAT to paint and do her computer work too. There’s a huge kitchen with big, long tables. Those are great fur sittin’ too.

BZTAT is always shoo-ing me and Who off of the tables and the counters. Silly human. Give it up.

There’s yard kittehs, too. I haven’t lived in a place where there were yard kittehs before, so this is kinda new fur me. I can’t tell ya how many time Mia Meow and I have banged our noses on the windows in spats with them.

BZTAT feeds the yard kittehs in the garage. These kittehs have been here awhile, and the human that owns the house has been good to do trap-neuter-return with them. We have some new ones that just recently showed up though, so they will be goin’ in fur their surgeries soon.

Maybe in a few days I will write a post where I introduce them to ya.

I can’t promise I will keep up with my blog any better than I have been, but I do have lotsa new things to share, so maybe I will be better.

Nice meowin’ with ya.

Just Meown’,

The Brew

The wonderful thing about the arts is that they make it possible for you to do anything you can imagine, and be anywhere that you want to be!

In this painting, my human BZTAT painted my  appearance at the greatest arts event in feline history – the Broadway premiere of “Cats” the musical at the Winter Garden Theater on October 7, 1982.

If yer interested, it is 18″ x 24″ painting on wood is valued at $350. Contact me if you’d like some more information about it.

Are there other moments in history that you would like to see The Brew visit? Contact me today about commissioning a painting of MOI by BZTAT for your collection!

Just Meowin’,

The Brew

There’s a new cat in my house. She’s a miniature cat, and she is nuts.

I mean, she never stops. She’s always bouncin’, pouncin’ and trouncin’ on my world.

BZTAT calls her Mia Meow. You can read BZTAT’s explanation of how she came into our world here.

I am not sure what to think of Mia. She is not at all like the Slick cat, who, sadly, went to the Rainbow Bridge on Labor Day. I miss the Ol’ Slick Cat.

Mia does sorta have some of the same tortie colors that Slick had, but her personality is quite different.

I guess I can put up with this miniature little Mia Monster. I am not so sure about what will happen when she is not so miniature anymore though.

By the way, you know I am BZTAT’s spokescat, so I need to make a plug fur her. She has a new website, and she is making some new custom artworks these days. She now makes digital portraits like the one you see above of Mia. Why don’tcha check the new site out?

Just Meowin’,

Brewskie Butt

I’m now a neighborhood watch cat. And there’s lots to watch.

We moved from the Canton Arts District because my human BZTAT was awarded an Artist Residency. You can read about it here.

Moving was a lot of work. I had boxes to jump in and out of, new rooms to explore, stairs to run up and down, and all sorts of things to chase through the windows!

It was exhausting, but I have to say, it has been a fun new adventure!

I haven’t written much here of late because I can be a lazy cat sometimes. But I thought I would check in and let folks know what is up.

I am thinkin’ of some new ideas fur this blog. Not sure where it is gonna go, but I am gonna try to get it a bit more active again. Stay tuned.