Hand Painted Antique Cabinet Doors - Original Black Cat Oil Painting by Diane Irvine Armitage

I am working on furniture for my booth at The Old Barn Antique Mall and today's project is an antique dresser that has two cabinet doors at the bottom.  I am ebonizing the dresser so it will be black and doing two original oil paintings for the cabinet doors of black cats.  Very loose and suggestive - more like a dream or a memory.

This is the left side ...

 

And here is the right side ...

I will be setting my antique zinc and glass curved top cabinet on top of this dresser.  It is a glass table-top cabinet and I have lots of fun oddities to put inside : - )

Cat Painting - Black Cat Original Oil Painting by Diane Irvine Armitage

The last in my series of black cat Morticia in the 8 x 8 inch size.  This original oil painting is on archival canvas board.

You can see this painting and all my other black cat paintings on Pinterest HERE.

The Witch's Cat - Original Oil Painting of a Black Cat by Diane Irvine Armitage

I have painted this pose in the past and thought it would be a nice one for a project I am doing.  I have a small antique sewing cabinet that I am adding a painted panel to.  This painting of a black cat will be the top panel once it dries and I assemble it.  I will take some pictures of the finished piece at that time.  This original oil painting measures 6 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches.

It is interesting to see the difference in my style from about six months ago to now.  Here is the one I did a while ago ...

You can see all of my black cat paintings on Pinterest HERE.

Cat Painting - Original Oil Painting of a Black Cat Profile by Diane Irvine Armitage

Another in my series of 8 x 8 inch original oil paintings of Morticia, this one is a profile painting.  Keeping it loose and just enjoying the process!

This is my 100th post, so that means I must have at least 100 paintings under my belt since I started painting last August : - )

You can find this painting and all my other black cat paintings on my Pinterest Gallery page HERE.

Hand Painted Tiger Oak Cabinet with Black Cat by Diane Irvine Armitage

Today's project was a hand-painted panel on a turn-of-the-century tiger oak music cabinet.  This is a really pretty cabinet made up entirely of tiger oak.  I gessoed the front panel four times and then painted black kitty Tish in oils.  The warm ochres and the greys make for a nice background for the black.  Today's blacks weren't straight from the tube, but a mix of Phthalo Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Burnt Sienna.

And the artist's muse looking in the studio window from the catio.

What a goofball!