'The Right Side' now available as a Limited Edition Print

'The Right Side'

My latest 'up close and personal' cat is now available from my website
It is limited to 350 copies worldwide and has been printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching Fine Art Paper using archival ink.
It is the same size as the other 'up close and personal' cats, 'Eye Spy', 'Look Left' and 'Eyes Down' although in a landscape rather than portrait format.

I am in the process of painting 'The Left Side' so that there will be a pair available in a landscape format.

I'll post progress on the blog.

First though I have a cheetah to complete.

Macro Cat Finished

One down, two to go.
This is the first of a pair of macro cats for the 2010 Society of Feline Artists Exhibition in London.
It,s coloured pencil with acrylic washes to soften the pencil marks and the actual image is approximately 10 x 8 inches.

Endings and a Macro Cat

One of the things I want to do before my last day at work is to finish off all my work in progress. That way when we get to the first of April I can have a new beginning.
Some of you might remember this cat from the NEC last November, I hadn't done any more with it until this week, now it's almost finished.
It's approximately 10 x 8 ins, coloured pencil with acrylic washes on Arches paper and will hopefully be going to the SOFA exhibition in September.
Now I'm going to work, my very last Friday!

More Tabby Cat on Pastelmat

This morning we took all the dogs on the moor just as the sun was rising. I walked along the moor road looking for birds, I saw a couple of Curlews and then met the hounds going for their early morning walk.

Here are a couple of photographs.

Juno waiting for the ball to be thrown andthe hounds.

Macro Cat on Clairefontaine Pastelmat

I have been wanting to try my new Clairefontaine pastelmat. I cut a small piece and drew a macro tabby cat as I wanted to try the surface more than worry about drawing. So far I'm really liking it, it feels like a cross between velour and colourfix. It takes layers well, you can blend and burnish and the fur has a soft look to it.
I'll be doing a more detailed review when I finish the piece.

Continuing Cat in Coloured Pencil and Acrylic

I've worked a little bit more on the cat but household tasks kept calling me today so not much progress has been made.
With the continual rain I seem to spend an awful lot of time drying paws or cleaning floors. The cleaning results from the muddy paws that make a dash to pass me when I'm already propping up a dog who has one foot in a towel. Why is it that my dogs can run and play on three legs if the need arises, but lift one leg to dry it and they either collapse, or lean so hard that both of us end up in a heap on the floor.
All except Rio that is, Rio doesn't like rain, even worse he doesn't like the ground to be wet when he needs to go out. The only way to encourage him is to go out first and convince him it doesn't hurt, this is a lengthy process. In fact you can add changing clothes and drying hair several times to my daily tasks . Yesterday it involved rounding up fish from flower beds but that is another story.

Another Macro Cat

My series of macro cats has proved to be popular in print, so I have decided to add to them.This is acrylic and coloured pencil on Fabriano Hot Press Watercolour paper, approximately 9x7.

I use the coloured pencil first to put down some layers, then start adding acrylic to add depth and punch up certain areas. I then add more CP and more acrylic until I'm happy with the result. I use mostly Polychromos pencils with one or two Coloursoft as I find Prismacolours rather soft for using with the acrylic.