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!
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