This Bengal kitten is called Kirby and he lives in the USA with his owners Terri and Rich and his feline friends Kiyah and Priss. Those huge ears and that cool Bengal expression made me want to paint him. He’s not quite finished yet, he still needs his whiskers added.

And here he is with his whiskers and other details finished. This is a watercolour and acrylic painting on watercolour paper.

Click the image to see a close up detail.

There’s nothing nicer than sharing a cuddle with your best friend. These two siamese cats are enjoying a warm nap together and I couldn’t resist painting them.

They’ve been painted in acrylics on watercolour paper with a series of loose glazed layers which gives lots of subtle colours and tones. Have a look at the close up detail of the fur in front of the ear below. There are lots of soft shades of gold, cream, pink, green, blue and brown.

This is Sweetpea, a fabulous brown Burmese sleeping peacefully on the computer monitor. Don’t cats always know the warmest places to sleep?

This little cat is Cora, a British Blue kitten. She’s sitting under a Japanese pagoda in the garden and the sunlight is falling through the leaves of the plant next to her. I loved the colours, the blues, greys and violets in her fur and in the slate all around her and the warm yellows and golds in the pot and in her fabulous eyes.

And here is a close up of the finished painting, it was painted in acrylics on William Turner paper.

He’s painted in acrylics on fine linen canvas.