Here's some progress on the big cat painting. I'm working out how to lay on the fur. I've settled on a method of repeated underpaintings, followed by dabbing on the hairs stroke by stroke. I have the midrange of my palette working, but I still have to add the high and low tones to make the cat look better.
I've discovered that there is a timing to laying down the strokes. Too fast and the strokes blur and lose pigment, too slow and the strokes come out looking mannered and artifical. Plus, I am growing old painting fur. If I follow swing time (think of a quickstep like the jazz standard "Happy Feet"), then the strokes seem to come out right. I've been listening to a lot of swing recently...
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