Toulouse

I had the urge to try painting an orange kitty on a red background. I'm not so sure now about the red background now but it fulfilled my craving anyway. :) I found the reference photo on Paint My Photo.com.   I'm working on a couple dog paintings now - this will be the last kitty for a bit!

Toulouse - Acrylic on 6x6 in. gessobord

Toby

This is the brother of Dillion, the previous kitty in my blog. This painting doesn't have my usual more colorful background, I wanted to try doing a background that brought out his pretty eyes.

Toby - Acrylic on 6x6 in hardboard panel

I have been painting a lot of cats lately and it's been fun to feel my confidence with them growing. I'm about to switch gears though for a dog commission - stay tuned!

Dillion

This is my cousin Carrie’s cat, Dillion. It was pretty smooth sailing painting this guy until I got to the dreaded whiskers, d'oh! Some turned out a little heavy-handed. I must remember to go slower and do lots of practice strokes intermittently on scratch paper.

Dillion - 6x6 in. acrylic on gessobord

More than just a pretty tail

The blues in the reference photo I used for this painting were amazing! Unfortunately I could not replicate them exactly.  I hope the background doesn't look overworked, I was going one way with it and then changed direction and went over it with something more subtle and muted.

A fellow painter I know, Robin, had the generous idea of doing one painting a month to donate to Art4shelter's next annual art sale in May 2019. I think that seems like a do-able goal for me, so - just barely, here's one for June.

More than just a pretty tail - Acrylic 5x7 in. on archival cardboard

Quiet Smile

And now for something totally different...here's a painting of a statue. It was fun to try painting a "human" face, but within my comfort zone. I used the Notanizer app to help with finding the values. The reference photo is from pixabay.com, I think I'll hit them up to see if there's more cool statue photos to try.

Quiet Smile - 8x10 in. acrylic on masonite board

Romeo

This is handsome guy is Romeo. I was looking back at some earlier black cats I painted and I feel I’m making progress!

      Romeo - 8x8 in. acrylic on gessobord

Gossips

This is my niece Hazel’s urban flock. Starting at the top center going clockwise around the water cooler we have Ramona, Florence, Blue-chi, Peanuts, Hello Kitty, and Sorrel.

Gossips - 10x10 inch acrylic on gessobord