Game 4 Art

Thanks Abbey and Tommy! Your photos are great!

Thanks Betsy for the reference photo!

Thanks again to Abbey and Tom for use of another photo.  Working with creating  value patterns for fur, rope, carpet and shadows was a fun mini challenge.

I’m always amazed when I see a cat with very unique markings.  Charlie is one of those!  Her body is mostly white with definite black and brown marks on her face and a tail filled with black and brown.  Thanks to Emily for allowing me to use her photo of Charlie for reference!

I’m now happy with how the form of the cats are developing.   Thanks to Abbey ans Tom for another fun photo!

Cats can make themselves at home just about anywhere.  This drawing was a great work in developing values with ink.  Even after this photo I added more shading.

A thank you to Abbey for her reference photo of Saoirse!

Cats have a tendency to perch themselves in and on so many spaces and things. Abbey’s wonderfully unusual photo caught my eye because I love the cat’s interesting silhouette shape. That shape lent itself to delightful curves to draw; adding just a little shading to those created a sense of form.  I like how the space in the entire drawing is divided; the composition reminds me a little of Henri Matisse and Mary Cassat’s work.  In the reference photo, Abbey’s cat was staring through a crack in the vertical blinds across the window.  I  changed that image by adding the bird to create a mini story.

This little kitty is focused intently on something. Is it a bird out the window?