These are the finals for the two pet portraits I did a while back. I've kept from posting them because it will be a long time before I have new material to post again. I am working on two commissions that cannot be shown until they are made public by the company, so it will be a while. These were fun portraits to do, I love animals and they always bring completely different challenges to painting humans. Fur is very meticulous, but really fun for me at least. I can go on auto-pilot and slip into a kind of zen while painting fur. These two where very unique animals, I am very proud of the paintings and since finishing them, a lot of people have been in disbelief when I tell them they are paintings. But thats because they're on my iTouch and when shrunken everything looks tighter and more natural. Nikita and Babette , both 12" x 16", Oil on Paper on Masonite, 2011.
or, How I am Learning to Slay the Mighty Blue Whale