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1. Lemewl Cox Cat, by John Singleton Catley
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By: Paula Pertile, on 2/14/2015
Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  colored pencils, cat portrait, Colonial portrait, John Singleton Copley, Lemewl Cox, Lemuel Cox, Add a tag

This was a little experiment with first an idea, then the technique. I wanted to do some Colonial cat portraits, based on actual paintings done back in the day. I did some research, and settled on a painting of Lemuel Cox by John Singleton Copley to be my inspiration.

"Lemewl Cox Cat" 

At first I was going to be more 'illustrative', then I ended up pretty much copying the painting, substituting a cat for Lemuel Cox, and making adjustments to the coat (neck, mostly) to fit the cat proportions. 


I started out with Prismacolors on Strathmore Bristol. 


I developed the drawing, and went darker and darker with background.


I just kept going, with different colors + black, then came in with Black and Caput Mortuum Polychromos. Finally, I scanned it and had a go at it with my digital colored pencil brush and Photoshop, just to get the whole thing dark enough. I also did the whiskers digitally (much easier than doing them 'by hand' with colored pencils!)



I've made prints available in the shop.
Not sure what's going to be next!



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2. A Christmas Commision
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By: crystal driedger, on 12/21/2007
Blog: Scribbled Business (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  cat, crystal driedger, edmonton, cat portrait, plywood, artist, painting, portrait, edmonton, fun, process, cat, crystal driedger, cat portrait, plywood, Add a tag

Here's another plywood painting that I completed and it's process (for greater detail click on each picture).


1• Create a confident drawing that will show you how to create your gradients and values (based on a greyscale drawing). Get it approved by your client.

2•For a painting where the texture is important, choose your canvas wisley. I pulled about a round dozen sheets of pokey plywood off the hardware stores shelves before I found just the right "chunk" for this image. Tell the person who cuts out your block of plywood that it's for art and yes, you know canvases are cheap down at the local art store...!

3• Protect Your Painting before it's even started. Give it several good (thick) coatings of Multi Purpose Acylic Polymer so that weird chemicals don't leak into the painting over the years destroying the values you create. THEN! Protect your paint (it doesn't come cheap after all...) by Gessoing your surface. This will give your paint an extra "grip" or "mile" so that you don't have to layer it on really thick. I paint my gesso on in several layers in different directions so that the brush strokes aren't going to create a distracting pattern. Thing to Remember: Your brush strokes on every layer of every painting can help aid your composition!

5• Block in Dark Colours.


6• Think Details and Light. The concept is to have your darker colours in the "Valley" part of the plywood ridges and the light colours on the "peaks". This will really make the texture pop. For details do what you normally do, fill in the valleys and peaks with similar values.

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