Cat Among The Tulips: 5.

Still painting Sparta Puss, it’s taking a while but it’s not something to be rushed. Using Liquitex Heavy Body acrylics and a fan brush I highlighted the areas of lighter tones on her fur in Titanium White (left); with a flat brush I painted details on the tulip leaves and added colour to the curtainsContinue reading “Cat Among The Tulips: 5.”

Cat Among The Tulips: 3

A bit more work on my painting of Sparta Puss with tulips today, doing the white areas and starting on the facial features, which I did freehand with a small brush and white paint. It’s not a bad likeness, her eyes are a bit close together but that’s easily corrected. I began the details onContinue reading “Cat Among The Tulips: 3”

Cat Among The Tulips: 1.

I have had a nasty cold the past few days and I wanted to do something to occupy myself that was fun so I decided to paint Sparta Puss from a photo where she’s posing in front of some beautiful tulips. I started with the canvas I recently covered in an opaque Magenta ground (here).Continue reading “Cat Among The Tulips: 1.”

Prepping in Pink

I’m starting a new painting so the first thing to do is to prepare it by getting rid of the intimidating white that’s on a fresh new canvas. During the Covid19 lockdown, which went on for nearly 2 years, I took up painting after a break of about 4 decades – I hadn’t painted sinceContinue reading “Prepping in Pink”

A Feisty Niece, a Furry Cat and a Film.

A short film of artist Rosie Scribblah doing a painting of her feisty niece with an appearance of Sparta Puss the cat.

Done At Last.

I’ve finished my painting of two siblings on the beach at night watching the bioluminescence. It’s been a long haul. I don’t often work from photographs and I don’t find it easy, I prefer to work from life, but this was a good exercise. I did a lot of the painting upside down – theContinue reading “Done At Last.”

Tiniest Tweaks….

I’ve almost finished this painting of two siblings on Swansea Beach in the dark last summer. We went to see the bioluminescence in the bay and sat around a driftwood fire for a while, watching the stars. It was lovely. I took some photos and the painting is from one of those – many ofContinue reading “Tiniest Tweaks….”