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.

Here’s a 10 x 8 painting of another pretty Meezer. This is Sasha lying upside down on the floor gazing up at us with her stunning blue green eyes. She was painted with acrylics on paper.

And here is a close up of the painting.

I sent a print of this painting to Sasha’s owner in Argentina and he’s posted it’s arrival on his blog and a photo of Sasha insepcting it for herself. Take a look.

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.