Bon Appétit 2023 Wall Calendar — Vintage Food Poster Art, 16-Month Cooking Calendar, 12" x 12"

The size of this wall calendar is great. But the art work is just beautiful. The colors Kim uses & the beautiful art detail to every little detail. From a house to a pond to the flowers & every cat, kitten, puppy or dog. It's like you can almost hear them meow or bark. I have been buying this calendar for 20 yrs. or more & I hope Kim is still painting these Beautiful pictures & putting them in this calendar for at least 20 more years. Thank You for sharing your Beautiful talent with all of us. No matter the day it's always better after seeing her paintings. Thank You, Angel

The Proverbial Cat 2023 Calendar is gorgeous. I absolutely love calendars. I have a few both at home and work. The one I had at home in my kitchen was just okay so I started looking online again for just the right fit. I looked months ago and didn't see this one. Apparently meant to be this time. A treasure for cat lovers

I’ve been buying Kim Jacobs’ calendars since I discovered them. Her watercolors are delicate and made up of charming and peaceful scenes of, mostly, cats and dogs sleeping or playing or just enjoying life. The images are very soothing as well as beautiful.UPDATE: As of January 2023, I just opened this calendar and, while still a delight, I was disappointed with January. The scene consists of an outdoor winter landscape, as usual, but instead of Kim Jacobs usual depiction of cats and dogs, puppies or kittens, this setting contains a pond surrounded by willows and a gazebo, upon which two swans are gliding. The scene is lovely, but somehow I'm slightly dismayed at not finding the usual array of adorable, domesticated animals that typically fill Kim Jacobs' pages. I hope Ms. Jacobs returns to her former archetype for next year's calendar.

Great calendar subject matter. A little pricey but makes me laugh. Received last year as a gift. And enjoyed it immensely.

I had the same on last year and loved it with new recipes, quick shipping

*Note a little smaller than the LANG brand calendars.The graphics are fun! I hang it on the wall just outside my kitchen in the dining room catty corner to my spice cabinet. More than once it has been an inspiration for some thing I made. This is my second year getting this brand of calendar.

I like this calendar because of the artwork. It fits on my wall nicely and I look forward to seeing and looking at it.

This is the second year that I have purchased Gary Patterson's calendar, Super quality and funny as heck !

Robert Gonsalves is a Canadian surrealist artist whose work is very easy on the eye and this is his 2024 wall calendar, which I believe is about the seventeenth which he has published.If you imagine a cross between a much more colourful version of the works of M. C. Escher and those of the subtler later surrealists such as Tito Salomoni you may have an idea of what the art of Rob Gonsalves is like.Gonsalves' imagery shows the art of transformation as shifts in perspective cause one thing to become another - as bird houses, tree houses or doll's houses become real houses, mirrors become water, water becomes sky, sandcastles become real castles, dolls or figures become life size and start to animate, trees become rivers, people become waterfalls, clouds or shadows (or vice versa); or in one of his most popular themes, ships become kites or shadows. The picture used as the cover and for January 2023 "Acrobatic Engineering" shows a group of acrobats forming a human bridge which as it recedes into the distance become a stone bridge supporting a railway viaduct on which a train can be seen.Pictures by Rob Gonsalves are often designed to appear in one way if you look at the top half of the image, you will see something else if you look at the bottom half, something else again if you look at the right side or left side, and it is only when you look at the whole picture that you realise that the image as a whole shows something which could not exist in our world.This 2023 sixteen month calendar contains the following 13 images:Last four months of 2022: "Toward the Horizon" depicts a bridge whose spans between the pillars which support it, look more and more like a squadron of frigates from the era of sailing ships.Other pictures:January 2023 and cover: Acrobatic EngineeringFebruary 2023: Bedtime AviationMarch 2023: This is the church and this is the steepleApril 2023: The weaving of a spring dreamMay 2023: For the BirdsJune 2023: Phenomenon of floatingJuly 2023: Climbing AshoreAugust 2023: WindpowerSeptember 2023: Eclipse FlowerOctober 2023: Fall FloatingNovember 2023: Can't see the forest for the treesDecember 2023: White blanketsOne slight niggle: unlike some other calendar art series (that of Boris and Julie for instance, who seem to use thirteen new images for each of their annual calendars) about half of these are repeats.I was slightly flabbergasted the first time I noticed that there is a small note under each of the paintings in these calendars with a copyright note which could give the false impression that they are all new. In this year's calendar the note reads Copyright 2022 Robert Gonsalves. Over the three years since I noticed that such note are being placed in these "Master of Illusion" calendars, the majority of the artworks concerned were pieces which I had previously seen in other calendars and books, and they were actually painted anything up to a quarter of a century before the date given in this calendar. For example, "Tree House in Autumn" in the 2021 calendar, which had a note giving the copyright date as 2020, also appears in the 2004 book "Masters of Deception" which gives the true date of that painting as 1995.However, I would recommend that book for a much more positive reason than to catch out the printers of this calendar for giving misleading dates: If you are fascinated by images which trick the eye, I think you would greatly enjoy reading the book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali and the Artists of Optical Illusion, which includes a number of paintings by Rob Gonsalves including The Sun Sets Sail, which is the cover art for that book.There is also a quartet of books specifically featuring the paintings of Rob Gonsalves, many of which have appeared in calendars like this one. This quartet of books areImagine a worldImagine a placeImagine a dayImagine a night.If you enjoy the sort of art which tricks the brain and eye into seeing something impossible, you will enjoy Rob Gonsalves' art and this beautiful calendar - and the books mentioned in this review with his artwork.

I’ve been buying this for years it good quality and lovely pictures and do t forget to find the mouse 🤣👍

My fisherman friend loved this calendar, said it was”absolutely brilliant “ !Sadly it did not arrive for Christmas as expected but probably due to the postal strike. At least it arrived before January 1st !

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I have been a fan of Sydney Hauser's Proverbial Cat calendars for quite a few years, and the 2023 edition is fully "up to scratch". You get 12+1 beautifully drawn images, each of a cat accompanying a cat-related 'thought for the month'. I can imagine some cat lovers framing them and putting them up on their walls.Old-fashioned people like me still like having printed wall calendars and I will continue getting this one as long as it is produced.