This commission to paint Ness, Vienna, Rigsby and Bob took me a while to complete. Their owners, Stuart and Jane, wanted the four of them curled up together but Ness doesn’t like having her photo taken! So I needed to come up with a pose that included all four cats even though we couldn’t get them to pose for the painting.

This is a 22×16 inch acrylic on a deep sided canvas. Here are some detailed photos…

Ness, Vienna and Rigsby.

Handsome Bob.

This shows the painted edges of the 1.5 inch deep canvas.

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…

Another of the Christmas commissions is Frank. I rather fell for Frank as I was painting him. He looks to be quite a character. He was also a lot of fun to paint as he’s sitting partly in sun and partly in shade and the colours in his fur change with the light.

A close up of the canvas…. 

He might not have a remarkable name but he is a remarkable cat. He came to live with his owner as a stray, he just moved in one day and made himself at home. But he quickly became the father of the family. One night he woke his owner in the early hours of the morning, he’d never done that before. When she got up to see what was upsetting him, she found that one of the other cats had hurt herself, she had a nasty cut that was bleeding. Black Cat had woken her to get help for Bella. What a cat! Of course Bella has recovered from her injury now and the cats sleep through the night again. Black Cat is a beautiful, gentle and remarkable cat.

This was an acrylic painting on paper.

This is Billy lying in the sun, one of the Christmas commissions. Billy is one of my favourite models. He and his two brothers are such handsome meezers! This painting was a surprise for his owner from her other half.

This was a 16 x 12 inch painting and it looked wonderful in a solid wood frame.