A series of cats among yellow roses for which I was inspired by an adorable illustration by Djamila Knopf of her trademark quite scenes with dappled light. I was playing a lot with AI at the time and inspirations for the images with various models, then corrected them with photo references. I painted each on a different base, from book covers to mat board. They were meant as studies, not finished paintings, so I did not bother to polish them all that much. The are all acrylic and coloured pencils, with some ink pen for mostly whiskers (pesky whiskers. Painting cats big is better to have room for them and not leave them out, which feels wrong, or make them clumpy, which makes them look like plush toys). Except for the square one, they are 20×30cm.
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| On the carton back of a watercolour paper block, some ink underpainting. This one also received a Daily Deviation badge on deviantart.com |
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On the cover of a book about Finland with the silhouette of Helsinki embossed on the front, you can faintly see it from the shadow-side shoulder to the right-hand border.
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On toned paper.
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On canvas board. I typically dislike canvas structure especially on small formats.
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On the other cover of that Finland book. No embossing this time, but a velvety, soaky surface that needed gessoing.
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On mat board, gessoed with just one layer, which made it slippery but sort of enjoyable.
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Paper mounted to and old picture frame's back. I do this a lot to use the boards, but the cut-outs for the clamps and hangers make it a bit tricky because it dries differently in those spots.
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All these pieces are available in my Etsy shop, and half of all profits go to my local animal shelter. Everybody finds it awful to have diseased cats and dogs around but for some reason, German shelters are completely donation-financed (= chronically underfunded).
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