Cat

"Imagination is something your conscious mind hasn't yet seen"- GG

Cat. Yes, really, a cat. I know you know its a cat, I'm just messing silly 😁.

Sometimes I feel the need to do something a little bit different with my creative style, and given I've never drawn a cat, I felt it was about time, especially as I have 3 of my own little rascals. I've drawn a tiger, does that count as a cat? Well of course, but what makes this different is I didn't use a photo for reference, so for that I'm due a couple of brownie points! He isn't fully finished, but, as I spent hours putting in some finishing touches, then making a boo boo that, coupled with my computer jumping all over the place as it had stuff going on in the background, out of frustration I closed without saving and pretty much had to start the finishing touches again! Grr or in this case a mini grr (meow meow 😻).

This is how pussy cat started. The great thing about starting a piece and not having the intention of selling it, is, there is no pressure. And I had no intention of putting it on the website because, there are a zillion images similar to the one that I had in mind, and many that are superbly photo realistic. I admire the skill of photo realism, but it isn't something that personally excites me, so it isn't something I aim to achieve, I do however, like to paint/draw and expand on my skills away from photo enhancement. I could learn realism, to discover I'm not very good at it (why set myself up for a potential fail 😜). I choose to be free with my art, I've left myself to be free for incompleteness, untamed in its finished state. Wild as cats are.

"The ability to express freely is the ability to see beyond the detail"- GG

I showed part 2

to a friend, she really liked it as it was at my second stage. I'd planned to only do one part of the face as for me, it always holds a tad more intrigue, but it was too bland for my liking, cute but bland. I did plan on completing all of one half of the face.. but after my hissy fit (hey, I'm only a human!) I decided that actually, it didn't need the rest of the face. And there I did a bit of background blending with.. ah red.. (you have no idea how much I wanted some burning reds and oranges in there 😝), and voila, finnito.

Here is a link to an insanely brilliant hyper realism painting of a cat- done on Photoshop. Absolutely superb! skillllls! Ive just noticed the likeness between this guys cat and my beginning stages.. I swear.. I have never seen this cat before, I had not watched this video until I had nearly completed my incomplete cat, no reference photos were harmed in the making of this art 🤓

And just to finish off, a selfie with me and my Blu 💙

Okay, I wanted to show off my new blue highlights 😸