Here's the result of the black cat I asked advice about painting...

[bif]

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[lunatica]

1. You did a good job

The colors you picked for the black cat are perfect and the highlights give it depth and 3 dimensional rendition so it looks like a substantive form. The black cat dominates the picture and is the first thing the viewer sees and then other forms draw the eye to the rest of the canvas. There is a touch of visual tension due to the diagonal placing of the lines of the window sill and the cat bed and the cats’ placement. By including the darker plants outside the window it balances your blacks and your whites so that neither drown out the other.

Being your first attempt at painting animals you did a very good job. It’s really quite difficult as you may have discovered because so much depends on the texture and highlights of fur. A simple photograph can lose a great deal of detail that the human eye would pick up by virtue of being able to discern minute details. This goes for any solid colored fur. It’s the same issue with the white cat. Your subject matter is quite difficult because of this. But you rendered the subtlety quite well. I hope you do more animal portraiture.

[MLAA]

2. Very nice!

I really enjoyed looking at it. I like the angle of looking down at the cats, almost like they are caught by surprise as you disturbed their nap. Really fun, no doubt your friend and his daughter will love it!

[msongs]

3. channeling your inner henri rousseau? nt

[flying rabbit]

4. I see that

Well done on his part.

[midnight and lulu]

5. Charming.

keep going!

[bif]

6. Thanks all!

And Lunatica, do you have ESP or something? When you make your observations about my paintings, it's almost as though you read my mind about what I was thinking as I did it! Sometimes it's even subconscious thoughts I'm not even aware of! Uncanny for sure.

[leighbythesea2]

7. I love it

Wonderful. I dont know these cats personalities but feel like the pose helps tell that-- and you added to it. Bravo.