Fluff

6"x6" oil Price $100

Something different for Day 23 of the 30 in 30 challenge.  I accepted a challenge to paint a cat and got the photo from a fellow painter. When I first painted it, it looked like a ball of fluff so I softened the edges and darkened it so that it would blend into the background better.  Mostly it is about the beautiful emerald green eyes.

Hello Kitty

6"x6" oil 

Thank you Jennifer Sanchez for the photo reference for this painting.  Although I am very allergic to cats, I really do like them a lot.  They can be haute and irresistibly adorable all at once.

Mia Loves Maizie

This is a watercolor sketch for an illustration for a children's book.

My art group went to Peter Huntoon's studio today for a demo.  It was so much fun to see how he loosely begins his work and turns a scene which may not be particularly exciting into an athletic and stunning work of art.  Peter has recently added oil painting to his repertoire of watermedia and he approaches it very similarly as he would a watercolor painting, with lots of drips and splashes and interesting tools.  He is one of the quintessential Vermont painters.

There is a Season

8"x8" original oil

 II needed to do this painting.  I needed to loosen up and go a bit abstract and this painting accomplished that for me.  What I learned from this (I borrowed that from Jo Mackenzie, an artist I greatly admire) is that cobalt blue and alizarin crimson make a lovely purplish-gray....the color of today.  There is a big story that goes with this cat.  I will leave it at that!

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Kitka oil 6"x6" #289

MEOW

Miss Kitty and the Pig 5"x7" acrylic #178

This is one of the cats that has been part of our family over the years. She is posing (what she does best) with a big ceramic pig my mom got me because she thought it would look good in the garden. I really like the pig because it is so quirky and is life size. Miss Kitty now lives with my grandson, which really is better because I am allergic to cats. He is only 2 and she is so sweet to him even though he doesn't always be that way to her (he thinks she is an excellent pillow). I like the grays and tried to get a feel of shiny hard surface on the pig.