Sweetpea – Brown Burmese
April 7th, 2006
Sweatpea is an eight year old brown Burmese and she’s clearly quite a character! Her owner has commissioned a painting of her and I’m painting her in acrylics on William Turner watercolour paper.
We decided that she looked wonderful belly up on the soft cream fur throws.
I started the painting with a loose wash of colour as the under painting and then started building layers of colour and tone to gradually create her form.
Even though she’s a brown cat, there are lots of colours in her fur; reds, browns, golds, greens and violets. And the cream throw she’s lying on has shades of gold and rose and violet in it too.
She looks so inviting doesn’t she? I just want to reach out and tickle her belly.
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Ally
04.07.06 8:32 pm
I searched for ages to find an artist to paint Sweetpea, and the minute I found Denise’s site and saw her wonderful work, I wanted her to paint Sweets.
She’s done such a fantastic job, and captured her character perfectly. Sweetpea loves it too, she stopped dead in her tracks washing to have a good stare at the painting when it came up on my computer screen.
I can’t wait to get the painting and see it in person. I’ll be honoured to own original art by this wonderful lady!
Thank you for sharing your talent Denise! :)
Dr Stella Rosenoff
04.24.06 10:47 pm
Sweetpea is so like my late lamented Burmese, Madame Monkey. Another of your wonderful paintings, Denise. Wish you could give me lessons!
Patricia S. Bell
11.25.08 8:54 pm
We are on our third Burmese cat. First Mickey, Minnie and now Mollie. I will always have a Burmese in my life. They are fantastic.
pauine bridge
10.10.10 5:47 pm
Stella – I remember Madame Monkey so well -
especially her door-hanging skills. What a lovely
painting.
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