Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Piano cat painting!

I've been pretty stressed out lately, so I've taken to painting again as a means of stress relief. I had this original picture: 
Original photo (about 3'' x 5'')

Here's the painting (I'm actually quite pleased with it)! I took this picture during the daytime, but because the lighting around here is really bad, you can't see all the nice details in the fur =(

Piano cat! (24" x 36")

This work took about 40 hours of work. I painted about 1-2 hours every weekday and 2-3 hours on the weekends this past month. The fur took an incredibly long time because I had to paint many of the fur hairs with an individual pointed paintbrush... Anyway, I took pictures along the way to see the progress. I've selected only a few stages to show here.


The first photo is the reference, and the pictures left to right in each row. In the third row, the second to last photo on the right is the painting. The original is also shown as the very last photo.