Watercolour cat portraits

 A collection of my watercolour cat portraits:

I painted this one just over a year ago and it's my first cat portrait.  I wanted to paint my cat, Tassimo,  since I had made a painting of my dog.  My cat is a tortoiseshell and she has yellow/orange fur mixed with black fur.  I had been taught to veer away from using black watercolour paint (although I believe that rules are meant to be broken, in art at least) so I decided to opt for a different dark colour: Dioxazine violet.  I chose that colour because violet is the complemtory colour of yellow - which I knew that I'd be using.  I thought it would look interesting even though there's no such thing as a purple cat in real life :) I greyed the violet down a bit, though.

This painting was a present for a cousin of mine of her two cats, Hunter and Trapper.  It was fun to try and capture their expressions, and I'd like to think that I succeeded at making them look furry and fuzzy :)  Again, I used more vibrant and saturated colours instead of greys and black - I think it makes the painting more lively and exciting! 

This is Tiffy, my Grandma's kitten.  My Grandma wanted a custom painting since other family members were getting paintings ;)  I created the dark colour by mixing indanthrene blue with quinacridone coral and a tiny bit of yellow.  I also continued the blue and coral in the background.  I used a white gel pen for the whiskers, fur, and the other white details.

I hope you enjoyed this post.   All feedback and upvotes are very much appreciated!

Cheyenne Christensen