"CATAWAMPUS" ... Another Process, This Time a Poured Watercolor

I must have used a quarter of a large bottle of masking fluid.

I poured, using permanent rose, aureolin and indanthrone in very dilute applications.

I masked some more, and did another  application of the same colors. I missed photographing the next step. There I went from pink to alizarin crimson to get darker shadows.

CATAWAMPUS
32.5 x 19.5 cm.

This is the painting now, in need of some careful glazing here and there, but basically done.
I love that word "catawampus" - it means kitty-cornered or at an angle. As my purpose and focus with this painting was the backlighting on the cat creating that angled shadow, I thought the name perfect.

Pumpkin obliged for the reference photo.

Thank you so much for dropping by - hope you enjoyed your visit!

A Busy and Productive Morning ...

I have place a thin wash of the boot color as a ground.

Here,  I have started the laces with a thin blue-grey color.

I think it is SO close to finished. I am tempted to intensify the colors on the boots, but I have a feeling that if I do that, I will upset the balance of the whole painting. My apologies - I can't get the colors exactly as I see them in real life.

This is a small 6 x 6 inch cradled frame. I have applied several thin coats  of gesso, and let them dry. This is part of my quest to find an attractive, and more reasonably- priced alternative to framing.

I have here mounted the swallow painting on the frame with gel acrylic medium, and am in the process of varnishing it with an archival, gloss, spray varnish. So far, so good! I think I will also get some wood stain to touch up the sides of the frame. 

This is one of the two paintings I have on the board to go. It's a re-do of one I did a few years ago of a deer skull mounted on the side of a friend's shed.

This is the reference photo of the other painting I am starting. I am going to try flooding all the painting except the whites and lights in the middle. It should be interesting to see what it does to the leaf colors. I tried a color swatch of some old paper, and it looks OK.
This might be it for painting today - I have a date with the Big Guy!

As always, your comments are most welcome!

Home Stretch with Clementine #2

Since the last post, I have given her some skin folds, eye definition, and lips ...

more color on the muzzle, and the start of a nose ... 

I put in a background, and have placed her black markings.  There is just some touching up to do - darkening her muzzle and nose, and checking that she looks good overall. My plan is to put this painting up for sale at Daily Paintworks, and take the first one [with the painting of Tiberius, her "brother"] over to the owners as a gift.
That's it for now. I have 2 small rose paintings to paint for friends at work ...

As always, your comments are most welcome! 

Subtlety

I started the dried hydrangeas again, trying to evoke more of a subdued, wintery,  even stark look.

I am using only aureolin, quin. pink, cobalt blue and indanthrone blue.

I quite like the effect. What do you feel about this painting?

Bruno and I are having great times riding again. He even threw me a few horsey curve balls yesterday,  and I just stayed quiet, balanced, and corrected him. It is SO GOOD to be riding again!!!

As always, your comments are most welcome!