I've never done a full animal portrait before but when Sarah made a close door available for a painting, what better subject? Due to the size of the door, my early thought was to do a sitting pose and I made several drawings of that. However, Sarah pointed out that I had a photo of La Fuzz in the full "lay out" position and that would be a nice idea for a painting. Agreed!
I had never worked on a wood panel before, but decided to prime and sand the surface exactly as I would for a canvas. Why I thought that would work, I don't know, but it did!
Here are some photos of the early drawings of an upright pose:
I had never worked on a wood panel before, but decided to prime and sand the surface exactly as I would for a canvas. Why I thought that would work, I don't know, but it did!
Here are some photos of the early drawings of an upright pose:
The second drawing was in the actual shape of the door panel. I'm glad I didn't proceed with this idea!
The photo of La Fuzz which, when turned vertically, became the basis for kitty landscape.
Here is the panel laid out ready for priming. The second photo shows the first layer of primer on the panel. The third photo shows the preliminary drawing of La Fuzz onto the panel.
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La Fuzz has attitude and I think this shows that. I had decided to make the painting blue, so next step was to lay on the background and then a lot of blue paint.
The painting went very quickly and I was happy with it from the beginning!
La Fuzz #4
La Fuzz #5
After some discussion with Sarah and David, I decided that more work was needed on the bottom third of the painting. As this painting could be hung as a horizontal "landscape" or vertically as a portrait, more attention was needed at the bottom, without taking away from the subject, which was the face and paws. Here is the final version of the painting:
Kitty Landscape
(60" x 20")
And here is my favorite photo of the painting!
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