I'm getting impatient for sure.
I wanted to play around with some ideas, and this rather quick sketch (about 4 hours ) is really just sort of having fun.
I snapped this photo when some friends and I were working together hanging the Member's Show at Sharon Arts Gallery in downtown Peterborough. This was a couple of years ago. Anyway, I always liked the photo
and thought it'd be interesting to paint. One of the things I'm working on is to create more variation in paint application. I've still got a long ways to go, but on this particular piece I aimed at keeping all the shadow areas really thin and transparent. I even left a few of them with just the initial wash. I could certainly bring this to a much more refined finish, but I didn't really want to. I'm afraid it would end up getting too tight and
overworked, so left it rather sketchy.
and, below are my two cats. They are such comfort seekers. Murphy is the white lump, and Harley is the gray mass. They are dedicated nappers.
Hi Deb,
ReplyDeleteWonderful painting. I like the yin and yang-ness of the cats in this photo. Hope your shoulder gets better.
All the best,
Todd
thanks Todd... funny, my granddaughter said the same thing about the cats!
ReplyDeleteI like this and your idea of varying the paint application; it's a skill I'd like to work on as well. But I'm sorry to hear about your shoulder bugging you, I hope it improves!
ReplyDeleteSleeping cats are adorable, you can almost forget about all the trouble they get into when they're awake.