Cat 5

(Above: the same painting reworked years later...)

Cat 5.
Acrylic on Masonite, 8" x 12".

This is Lizzy on a striped comforter cover on the bed, giving me the "stink-eye".

Having run low on the supply of canvas paper, I rummaged and found some scrap 1/8 inch Masonite panels left over from a construction project and cut them down into smaller pieces to work with.

Working on a smooth surface with no "tooth" produced some different effects.I went with the smooth side, as the texture on the rough side looked a bit heavy, but I will need to try that surface as well.

I like this one. It surprises me that I got away with horizontal stripes in a horizontal picture. Maybe because the comforter stripes are broken with folds.