Thursday, November 8, 2012

Cat 10


(Above- the painting reworked years later...)

Cat 10.
Acrylic on Masonite. 12" x 12".

Lizzy crammed up against the window, wedged into the last patch of sun on a cold winter day.
This is very similar to Cat 8. I used the gray tones again, and pleased with the result. I like the looser approach in the background outside the window allowing the brush strokes to be brush strokes.

The composition has a nice curve happening with the line of the cats leg, continuing with the background out the window. This is the kind of subtlety that I am trying to learn how to recognize. Maybe it was noted subconsciously, but I wasn't really aware of the curve until later.



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