Portrait of Two Black cats

Hi there,

today I am working on a portrait of two little black cats for a christmas gift.

Black animals are always pretty difficult to get right, you have to really work with the highlights in the fur.

Here I have blocked in some blue areas to give some colour to the painting and then gone into the lights and darks and blocked them in.

You have to be careful not to make black cats and dogs look too cartoon like, the more detail you can add to the picture the better.

Next I will really go into the detail on the fur and concentrate on the different tones. Then I will tackle the eyes, making sure that I get lots of detail in these and make them really stand out from the black.

Hopefully I will finish this tonight or tomorrow.

I am also working on a portrait of a horse, one with four dogs and a tabby cat, all for christmas, Phew!! I have quite a list of portraits to be done for christmas, so must get my skates on.

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Pet portraits, Dog Portraits, Cat portraits, Horse Portraits, Animal Portraits in Pastel.