11 x 13 inches, hot press 300lb cotton paper, watercolor, and gouache
I'm working on the last layer of fine fuzzy guard hairs, shadows, highlights and refining the cat's whiskers. This is my second favorite part of a painting. I love the research when I first start a painting. Research helps me set up an outline before I start the drawing.
It looks like the painting is done. I can overwork a piece if I don't stay with the process I've developed over my years of practice. That's why I work in layers and have a strategy.
I am finishing up the right side of the leopard.
Did you know that there are all sorts of different kinds of leopards? I'm writing this data from memory, so search don't take my word for anything serious 😂🙏
A jaguar looks like a leopard but is has a bigger frame. Leopards' eyes can be different colors from gold, green, to blue. The cloud leopard has the most fantastic coat pattern and face.
11 x 13 inches, hot press 300lb cotton paper, watercolor, and gouache
I've been working on the Leopard’s eyes. Once I am satisfied, I wait for the eyes to start speaking to me, and they will guide me through the rest of the painting process. I will do some chores and stop by the painting to get a fresh look. I will be adding more highlights to the eyes when I'm almost finished.
After dinner, I am going to start on the Leopard's ears. The ears speak to the emotions of the animal's body.
The first layer of paint always looks like poop 💩 🎨
The leopard will not have a purple nose; that's just the first layer of color. I like to add washes of color over color making different colors. The nose is a dark purplish-red.
sharing my first layer takes a lot of courage. I feel naked! I need to add shadows, highlights, and hair.
The leopard's eyes will not be yellow, more like a tan color. When working in water-based transparent paint, we work from light to dark. I like using opaque white watercolor called gouache. I can get some great details using gouache after filling the structure with colors, shadows, and highlights. I leave a light wash for lighter colors. That takes a lot of practice, and I am still learning. Also, I am self-taught, so my watercolor paintings don't look like traditional watercolor art.
I asked my husband what I should paint next. I thought he would request a soccer player. Instead, he surprised me. He asked for a big cat! He must have known I love painting cats 🐈
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After look finished work of leopard seems like live one. You have made it very creatively. Such an amazing art work.
After practicing on Steemit since 2016 and now Hive, I think my painting technique is improving. Thank you 🐈🙏
there is also a place called BLURT where we'll keep a spot open for ya! ✌️😎🥓🙏
lovely work as always! Highest regards!
I checked it out, where is my Blurt? 😂😂 No greedy whales 🐳 on Blurt?
Right here
same keys as HIVE
NO DOWNVOTE AT ALL! BYO Whale!
So it solved THE problems of both STEEM and the new ones in HIVE, in the most beneficially Zen way...
by taking the Downvote out of the discourse. And ALSO by requiring resource credits for all posts... which adds up fast. I see this as an opportunity for artists like you and @ultravioletmag to get in early on the olden rush. but that's just the way I read the cards .
I will join this coming Monday. 🙏
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A beautiful piece, I think this type of art is very detailed because this animal has a skin and certain aspects that must be emphasized to give it realism, and you have achieved it!
Thank you
Wow! That big cat is always looking beautiful and fine art with your soft touches appear very well and fine of that image. Very much welcome with your passion and art.
Thank you, practice makes perfect ☺️
Your notifications are on. I'm glad to see you. I hope you're fine. I wish you health and a happy day @reddust
Hi sweetie :) So an old steemit buddy told me about this platform Blurt- have you heard of it? Apparently when steemit forked to Hive, it also forked over there, so all of us who had any coinage had it all transferred like they did with Hive. Well I've been checking it out and it appears everyone whose been getting censored on Hive seems to be migrating there. Not that I have had censorship problems here, I don't tend to be very controversial, but it's still nice to know I'm in a place where I can say what I want without worrying. And I'm not bashing Hive, I will keep hanging out here too, but it doesn't hurt to check out other options.
I took the liberty of checking your page out, and if I thought I was pleasantly surprised to find I had some in there, haha, you are a good sized dolphin. In your shoes I would have liked to know, so I figured I would tell you :)
It's only worth a couple cents a piece right now, but I've been making $2-10$ a post which is a lot of Blurt- and you never know, it could turn into something :0)
Anyway, if you do decide to give it a try, let me know so I can reblog it and make sure you get introduced to the little group I know. It has just a hint of that small community feel, if that hint gets bigger I think it could be a nice little place ❤️
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