August 2026 Contest: Cat Nights

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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-2026-Contest-Cat-Nights-1359936387

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🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅

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Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch!

🎯 THE CHALLENGE

1. For the Line Art Creators: Whether old magic black, or siamese, or psychedelic magenta, or an image of your own Original Character Cat draw a Cat at night. The night symbolized by a crescent moon. Make line art displaying a cat under a crescent moon. Have fun!

2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry.

If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE

After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color Cat Nights

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES

Please go for it! But you must note the times for each.

📅 DATES & SUBMISSION

• Line Art (Submit to Contest Folder)

  • Starts: August 1 , 2026 | Ends: August 25 , 2026

• Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder)

  • Starts: August 25, 2026 | Ends: August 31 , 2026

👨‍⚖️ Winners selected at the sole discretion of @color-me-club group administrators; all decisions are final and non-negotiable

You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art

🏆 PRIZES & REWARDS

All prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors

🖋️ Line Art Category

• 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype

• 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype

• 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype

🎨 Coloring Category

• 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype

• 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz

• 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz

📋 RULES & GUIDELINES

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Human illustration only. No AI-generated entries will be accepted. Visit @DeviantAI for AI contests.

• Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry.

• Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.]

• Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.]

• Originality: Must be your own work created after July 31st, 2026. No tracing.

• All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions

• Accessibility: Line art must be free to download.

• Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too

📚 INSPIRATION

Need help with your imagination? Search your gallery for Cat or Kitten or Moon or Night. If you have a Cat Original Character, use it.

Cat Nights refers to an irish , or better celtic, folklore. From what I comprehend, August 9th to August 16th is when a witch can transform herself into a cat and turn back to human. But on August 17th if a witch transforms into a cat , she is a cat until she dies.

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Literature

Ship of Fools, Legend to be

Title: Ship of Fools, Legend to be I will tell a short story A fresh start, from long ago When the sun was turquoise blue While the moon grasses said no An equus stood on a hill Saw a ship tilted at shore Apple branches in his mouth Released... and one to the core Branches back, stepped on the side And down, to Sojourner's Tide Hustle or bustle about Ney! he said, where's a sea ride A human point to Sojourn Forward, no dilly dally Stop! right there... you hooved baby Or you'll become a sally The unsailed youth looked down and Quizzically looked around Question, who spoke the harsh words That gave his trepid fear sound A tap of metal on bone Revealed the hidden locale The fohlen raised his head up He be no males leisure pal Easy young one, your head's safe Said the sailor underneath His tiny scuffed head peaked out Said, stop chattering your teeth He had a sandy crown and Two little cute kitty feet The sea you want is tricky The cat said in summer heat Know! surprises is the norm If

Cat Nights by V. Neumann

By old Irish lore

on the 17th of August

more cats are among us

than ever before.

It is said that witches

can turn into a cat.

But no more than eight switches

as a matter of fact.

On the ninth switch

they cannot regain

their life as a witch.

A cat they must remain.

So if in mid August

you should hear the cats yowl

amongst sounds of the locust

when cats are on the prowl

Then you will know

as lore was told over time

that cats will show

lives as many as nine.

referal

from Old Farmer's Almanac

https://www.almanac.com/calendar/date/2024-08-17

from Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-s%C3%ACth

Superstitions of highlands and islands of scotland

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61730/pg61730-images.html

Cat-sith

https://folklorescotland.com/cat-sith/

I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Cat Nights ! you create or color!

@HDdeviant

Ask yourself, to color or to be colored!

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