This is a small painting of a Maine Coon cat I’ve recently finished. It’s a 10×12 acrylic on canvas board.

I thought you might enjoy this photo of the boys. Ming and Charlie are having a discussion about who gets to sit in the sun on the chair. Needles to say, by the time they’d finished fighting for it, Cassie had taken the spot for herself!

The Cats and Dogs Exhibition opens at the Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold, Ashby de la Zouch today and runs until Sunday the 18th of May. Here’s what I have in the show…

Mutual Grooming

A Quick Nap

Java

   
English Setter

So if you are anywhere near Ashby de la Zouch  do go and have a look at the show.

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 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.