A portrait of Tosca and Jake. Tosca is a Brown Burmese and Jake is a Blue Tonkinese. They don’t usually curl up together but with a bit of artistic license here they are.

Close up details…

This pretty girl is Java. She’s a Tonkinese and she lives with Barb and her beautiful family of Tonks and Siamese cats. She looks so cool and elegant doesn’t she?

 This was painted in acrylics on 16×12 canvas board.

A close up of her eyes.

This is a commissioned painting of Sienna, a beautiful Burmese cat and her litter of Tonkinese kittens. They are so sweet and they make a wonderful picture of happy feline family life. I started with sketch ideas.

Then I sketched out the pose on to canvas and using very light layers of acrylic I started to build up the dark layers of Sienna herself, the golds in the background and the darker noses and ears of the kittens.

Then I concentrated on Sienna, bringing her form to life on the canvas. Now to start on the kittens……

And here is the finished painting with the kttens fully developed and the background deepened.

Click the image to see a close up detail

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

Sweatpea is an eight year old brown Burmese and she’s clearly quite a character! Her owner has commissioned a painting of her and I’m painting her in acrylics on William Turner watercolour paper.

We decided that she looked wonderful belly up on the soft cream fur throws.

I started the painting with a loose wash of colour as the under painting and then started building layers of colour and tone to gradually create her form.

Even though she’s a brown cat, there are lots of colours in her fur; reds, browns, golds, greens and violets. And the cream throw she’s lying on has shades of gold and rose and violet in it too.

She looks so inviting doesn’t she? I just want to reach out and tickle her belly.