Here's another in my latest series of sleeping cat paintings. I found the reference photo in the WC RIL courtesy of Crias. Tonkinese cats have beautiful but tricky coloring to duplicate with paint. I finally went with Warm sepia, DS Moonglow, cobalt blue deep and a very, very light under wash of quin gold. I did fiddle with this one more than I would've liked but I kept seeing things that had to be tweaked. My inner control freak was nagging me to distraction this time around and I gave in more than a few times. I think for that reason I'm not as happy with this one as I was with the first two. Constant tweaking and loose style painting don't even belong in the same sentence, much less the same painting.
The background has a more greenish cast to it than appears in the image. I was unable to recover it in my photo editor.
2 comments:
Great job Billie, I'm a "cat person" but don't think I've heard of that breed. No matter, any breed of cat is superior to all other creatures IMO, they are Nature's masterpiece!
Thanks, Nick.:) I believe the Tonkinese cat is a cross between a Siamese and a Burmese. Although you can't see them in this painting they tend to have aqua colored eyes.
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