Coco is a very striking Siamese, a real beauty with a quirky fun loving personality and a real chatterbox. It was wonderful to paint her for her owners.

She has amazing eyes doesn’t she? I think she’d make a wonderful model.
:-)

Louie and Huey are two amazing caramel point Siamese. Their owner Janine wanted a painting of them. She sent me many lovely photos to work from. The boys obviously love going out into the garden and are really outdoor types so we decided to paint them with the garden as their backdrop.

See a detailed look at the paintings here…
http://www.thepaintedcat.co.uk/commissions/louie-huey.shtml

Here is the newest addition to the Christmas cards collection, two Siamese playing in the presents under the tree. These two pretty girls are Yum Yum and Peach Blossom. Now I need to think of a good title for it!

Here’s Cuddles, a painting I finished early this year. Now its framed and ready for the SOFA exhibition. I think the framers did a great job and the frame looks wonderful, its a cross between silver and gold and it changes in the light. Sadly the photo doesn’t do it justice really.

Hobbes, a beautiful tabby point Siamese cat, is enjoying an afternoon asleep on the bed. Where else would a cat be?

I loved his comfortable pose and the patterns on the bed covers and I wanted to try and capture his expression of bliss in a painting and I liked the challenge of the patterns too.  

First I sketched him onto watercolour paper and used masking fluid to preserve the white lines of the pattern. Then the first layers of colour were washed on using watercolour and left to dry. I like watercolour as an under painting because it’s easy to make changes. Once it was fully dry the making fluid was removed and the next layers of the pattern were developed with acrylics. Colours were adjusted as I painted and the lines were tidied up.

Then Hobbes himself was painted and shadows and highlights added to the covers underneath him. Finally the whiskers were added.

 Asleep On The Bed is a 16×12 acrylic painting on watercolour paper.