Dinner Guest-Cat And Mouse

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Dewi was the super host with super reference photos.

I really liked the concentrating cat! I wondered what would he be looking at so intently?? So I added the guest.

This is oil on a 7x5 canvas panel.

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1 Peter 5:10,      "And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast."

Poser-Cat Portrait

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 Oil on a 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Scatty was the host and provided a bunch of great photos!

It looked as though this cat saw the camera and struck a pose!

I toned this support with a thin later of alizarin crimson. That original toning makes up much of the background. I used some painting knife plus a heavily loaded brush.

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 Psalm 39:7     " May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you."

Midge- Cat Portrait

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Kay was the hostess who provided a bunch of great photos! This is her cat, Midge. I got a kick out of Midge keeping a cautious eye open between snores. Kay challenged us to work in some black and orange within our paintings in honor of Halloween.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.               

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^{1 Peter 1:24}                 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
²⁵ But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Sitting Pretty-Cat Portrait

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Mary was the gracious hostess

 The intense gaze of a cat often gets my attention as a subject.

I pushed the color boundaries in this one a little. As an experiment, I didn't use a toned panel this time. I really missed it. Lotsa paint!


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 2 Corinthians 4:18       While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Fancy Ears-Caracal Cat

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Maureen was the gracious hostess.

This is  a caracal. A very interesting desert cat. It has long tufts of hair at the tips of its ears.

Mostly done with a brush. Some painting knife.

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Matthew 17:20    “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."

Cat Nap

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Gillian was the gracious hostess.

I had to have a go at the feline dreamer. Loved doing that thick fur! I first toned the panel with red acrylic.

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John 1:14     And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 

Dream Team-Cat

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Kay, a super talent painter, was the hostess who supplied this great reference photo!

Taco Belle, the cat, is really at peace in dreamland. And, of course, there's his odd-couple friend.
This is one of those "I'm not sure if it's done" kind of paintings. I keep resisting the urge to go back in and mess with Taco's fur...But, then again, it all comes together and looks fine from a little distance. So that tells me to stop, and don't overwork it.

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James 4:14 "Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."

The Thinker-Cat

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Oil on 6X6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE Wet Canvas. Ros was the great hostess. She supplied plenty of terrific reference photos.This is her Scottish Fold cat. Their ears fold over toward the front...thus the name. It just looks as if he's contemplating all the questions of life. Love the Buddha pose.

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1 John 4:9-10 "We love Him because He first loved us."

Eyes On The Prize-Cat

Demo

Step 1

The canvas panel is toned with red acrylic. This provides a mid value in which to work up or down. I also allow some of the toning to peek through the final painting for harmony throughout.

Step 2

I lay in patches of exaggerated color to get a feeling of what may work.

Step 3

I continue applying thicker paint while adjusting colors. I leave it open enough to let the toning show through.

Finished

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Annie was the gracious hostess. Thanks for the great reference photos. This is a photo of Annie's cat, Ember!
This one was a lot of fun! I hope you like it!

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Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."

Eye See You-Cat

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the gracious hostess. Thanks for the great reference of your cat, Dave.
The title "Eye See You" of course refers to the beautiful cat eyes.
My objective today was to push expressive color. Below is how the painting started. It was really blah and boring. That's what made me decide to push the color and add some shadows.



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Mark 3^:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Dave The Cat-Portrait

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.
This is my contribution to the WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the host and supplied the great reference photo. Thanks, Lin!

This is Dave, Lin's feline friend. The photo showed a royal, haughty, demeanor. Really posing for the camera. That's what I tried to capture in this painting. I first coated the support with black gesso. I really enjoy working with that stuff! Hope you like it!

I love painting cats, but I'm a dog person. What about you?

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Luke 18:27 Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Colorful

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my submission to WDE on Wet Canvas. The reference photo was provided by Lin. Thanks, Lin! Her cat's name is Dave!

I first toned the gessoed board with a red color. I tried to get inventive and introduce blue color to excite the eye. I like unexpected colors (esp. blue) in a painting.

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Proverbs 25:11 A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Cat-Color

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

Color is always a challenge. Whether I'm painting from life or a photograph, I want to expand upon the colors that I see. I don't want to reproduce nature or a photo by carefully matching colors and details...I surely can't do that better than nature or a photo. In other words, that's already been done. I use them merely as a springboard to arrive at where I want my art to be.

My goal is to create an engaging piece of art for the viewer. In keeping with that goal is inventive color and to leave ambiguous areas for the viewer to explore. I realize that's a pretty common piece of knowledge among many of you dear readers. But while it was buzzing around in my gourd, I thought I should catch it and post it here.

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Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.