Todays painting is a British Blue cat asleep in her basket. These cats have so much colour in their coats, blue and silver, greens and greys and warm reds and violets depending on the light. So it was a wonderful challenge to capture her using a range of colours, to get the warmth of her coat in the shadows against the blue highlights where the sun makes her fur shine.

12×9 inches
acrylic on board

Add the wonderful colours from the basket and her wonderful pose and I just couldn’t resist her. :-) Here’s a close up detail….