DAISY PAINTING PROCESS

DAISY, a muted tortoise shell cat with green and yellow eyes laying on the floor in the sun, about to bite me.

 This little menace is my cat Daisy.

Several months ago I put a bunch of glow in the dark stars on my dresser. I thought it would be cute, fun, silly decor. What I didn't expect was for it to be Daisy's favorite 2am enrichment toy.

She has been picking them off one by one and batting them around the room like rave hockey pucks since. Not a single night did the stars know rest. Until Monday night Daisy finally won, and the last star was lost under the bed.

I didn't set out to create such a storied piece. The reference I chose to start with just happened to be Daisy with those demonic eyes. And isn't it so fun and cool to put glow in the dark stars on a painting?

1st process Image,

light blue and yellow outline over a neon pink wash background almost a drawing of a cat, kind of panther looking at this point

2nd Process Image,

Started building out the face, and laying out a color pallet

3rd Process Image,

add the eyes and somethings wrong here, shes just a little too evil

4th Process Image,

The face shape was a struggle , I messed with it for a while adding angles, smoothing them out over and over and over

6th Process Image

Moved on to more details and shadows, starting to build more of a body for her

7th Process Image,

Nearly done, More work on the body and background, trying to bring the whole thing together

FINAL PAINTING

DAISY AND HER STARS 10”x10” Acrylic on Wood Block

REFERENCE IMAGE

Daisy staring out the window thinking about her next great crime.