This is an oil painting of Stan. Stan lived with Sandra and her family and he was quite a little character. Sandra wanted a 16×12 oil painting of Stan.

I started with a sketch of him lying on the floor, looking playfully up at us from an upside down position. A typical mischievous kitten and a real sweetie!

Stan is coming along nicely and as you can see from the photo, I’ve got him onto the canvas board and all the main shapes are there. Now it’s a slow process of building him up and adding colour and detail. This is the fun part of the painting, but slow because it means waiting for each layer of oil to dry before the next one can go on.

And here is the finished painting of Stan on the easel, complete with his frame.

And this is a close up detail of the painting.

This is a portrait of Alice, a gorgeous Bengal cat who lives with Fiona and Andy. She has a wonderful expression as she stares out through the grasses. I wonder what she is looking at?

Alice is sketched onto a 20×16 inch canvas and the under painting is started with light washes of colour. 

Then the blues of the sky and the greens on the grasses are developed. I used several different blues for the sky, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine and Prussian Blue.  

 Finally I start work on Alice herself.

 Finishing touches are her whiskers and details in the seed heads in the grass. This is the finished painting.

A close up detail of the canvas.

This is another Christmas commission. Frosty was commissioned by Tabitha for her daughter. Tabitha has some of the loveliest cats around and luckily they sometimes model for me too.

This is a 16×12 acrylic on canvas board.

Sparkle is a Ragdoll cat who looks totally blissed out laying on the bed. This painting is a 22×18 acrylic on canvas board commissioned by her owner Vikki.

This painting was wonderful to paint. The underpainting is full of reds and violets and with the blues of the bed covers over the top it makes the colours glow and they look rich and luscious. Sadly that doesn’t come across in photos.

This is Cookie. Jo commissioned me to paint her as a gift for her Mum for Christmas. She’s a beautiful ginger cat and reminds me of our ginger boy Solly.

This is acrylics on paper. The reflections in the wood floor were a lot of fun to paint.

A close up of the painting.