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HeatherHorton — Ruby_Blue Blanket
Published: 2006-04-20 12:09:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2055; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 161
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2006Oil on Canvas
20"x20"
I wanted to paint my cat, but not in a cutesy way...to simply fill in for a traditional figure....she proved a good model:>
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Comments: 16
It's amazing 
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This is a great painting indeed. I really love your composition, in this as well as in other pieces you have done. And you keep sticking to the same simplicity and cleanness in your paintings, which is awesome to look at every time. It is fun to see how you have switched your usual human model with a cat, and the way you have painted her so relaxed and casual, not like this cutsie thing. The other thing that comes in mind right when looking at it, is the onwderful use of light, how it is warm from one side, mwatching the cat, and cold from the other, contrasting her, this balances it in such a nice way. I read another comment here, and I do not think you would need another element to balance it.. It does not make me feel like it is tipping over, at all
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I love how you don't try to make anything look prettier, cuter, or nicer. You just paint it as it is. I love that about your work.
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LOL my dog would be a good model too he'll lay there without moving for hours!
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Look at the *temperature* in that light!!
I seriously stared more in awe of that gorgeous temp change across the surface, than that cat.
This is a seriously marvelous piece. On the surface, a strictly traditional observation painting...but it has enough intrigue in it's color and composition to function as a fine art piece in the way of nearly serving as an abstraction!
*swoon*
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Thanks!!! I needed that..
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Yeah, cats do make great models. : P
Really great.
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Top notch work as per usual
Again I'm a big fan of the way you use your paint, but I guess you know that by now
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O is's very nice! I just did a similar thing in pencil... I didn't submit it yet...
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I love it, and the way you give your subjects 'breathing room'.
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She was a sleap ? 
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Cats are excellent models. Dogs tend to fidget too much. Do you work from photos? Have I asked you that before? Have you seen Hockney's dachshound painting series?
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