Saturday, October 31, 2015

Black Cats and White Cats - Original Oil Paintings by Diane Irvine Armitage

Here are two of three portrait commissions that I have done for Roxane.  Both paintings are very large - 18 x 36 inches!  One is of her black cat Gin and the other of her white cat Sel (which means Salt in French).  I painted these paintings in several stages.  First with an underpainting where I put in a nice reddish brown in the background area so it could peek through in the finished painting.  These paintings were a real pleasure to paint!
 Finished paintings on my drying shelf in the studio.
 
 The painting of Gin in progress ...
 
 And the final painting of Gin ...
 The painting of Sel in progress ...
 Underpainting, then second session ...
 And then the final painting of Sel.

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