8.5" X 11" Oil on Birch Plywood
I haven't worked with too many cats before, and these two were an interesting challenge, as the painting was built almost as a collaborative between myself and Jasmine and Daly's owner. B. worked to compose the piece from different photographs, and I did the painting and tuning-up of the color and background. This is a painting which had to be of a particular size to fit inside of an incredibly beautiful frame, and I think that some of the rough, chunky brushstrokes are going to work really nicely with the ornate frame. This was also one of my first experiences doing a double portrait, and the way that it turns out is that all the attention to detail that you put into the features of one cat, you spend an almost equal amount of time on the other one. It is, however, cool to see all of these eyes looking back at you when you catch the painting in your periphery.
