It's hard to imagine people wasting money to paint cats; I think they're naturally beautiful and don't need additional "decoration". However, to each his/her own. It's hard to think any of our cats would hold still long enough to go through all the time required to "beautify" him/her.
Time to grab the neighbor's cat and take up art!
The book these came from said some of the paint jobs cost $15,000 and had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat's hair grows out. So that would be $60,000 a year just to keep your cat painted!