Cat 67, Mrs Roosevelt on the porch
11 x 14", acrylic on canvas
Mrs R has been gone well over 15 years, but I have plenty of photos of her. She was not particularly attractive, but had a dynamic personality that more than made up for her looks. I may have glamorized her a little bit- she would be pleased.I had two objectives with this painting:
arriving at a good composition for the canvas shape, and,
working with warm and cool temperature colors to convey depth of field.
I'm finding the standard canvas dimensions often do not work with the crop I have in mind. In this case a square format would have been best. I worked around that by creating a square through utilizing the post in the foreground- I think it worked out well.
I also achieved a nice mix of hard and soft lines. I may sharpen the whiskers more.
I still need to figure out how to get around the "fish-eye" distortion when shooting these. The post appears to be curving, but my trusty ruler tells me it is not.
