My son Joe brought home his cat, Batman, when he got out of the Navy. The cat is large, as house cats go, and he is very entertaining. He loves to pose for an appreciative audience, flopping to the floor, rolling and stretching to unreasonable lengths, like an albatross. If there is meat cooking, he gets an uncontrollable twitch in his tail. It sticks straight up and twitches - we call it his tail-erection. I decided to make the cat my subject today, as I got a bit tired of inanimate stills. He was excited that I was down on the floor trying to get photos, so he was in constant motion....hence my blurry picture.
The canvas is larger than what I've been using (the tiny 5 inch squares)...this one is 8x10 inches. I had used it for a crazy paint pouring experiment with acrylics and WD-40. I didn't really care for it, so I gesso'd over it with some super-thick gesso (why did I buy super-thick? It was on clearance at Hobby Lobby). The thick nature of it means it left 3-D brush-strokes. It worked out really well - the black on my brush (yes, I used black paint) wasn't fully oiled and it left the gullies white, which made the black fur look at bit more realistic. Happy accident!
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