#194 & #195 White Cat, Night Earth 9/21/19

A small field trip to Vermont got in the way of painting this past week.  Got back into it today.  Two more tiny easel painting.  A white cat that I met at Jumbo's Pumpkin Patch last weekend when I dropped off some earrings for the Craft Attic.  The little girl who lives at the farm wanted to show me her cat, who "really likes her, but was stuck and needed help."  We found the cat, just fine, but in a semi-protected area from the little girl.  This is the pose I found the cat in, looking to see if the little girl was going to actually make it into its hiding spot. Really the cat was very patient with the little girl, allowing it to hold her in various precarious positions.  I've got several photographs that I would love to paint, but figure I should ask her Mom first.  The cat is all white, and quite clean for a barn-cat.  I only had trouble painting his eye and mouth, but by the 3rd or 4th try I was happy with the outcome.  The Earth painting was a bit more difficult.  Well, mostly just the sun was difficult, and I'm still not sure I'm done with this one.  It is showing the night side of Earth, Europe....though I didn't try very hard to be sure the land vs sea lines were accurate against actual maps of the Earth.  Tap, tap, tap is how I got all the light-dots.  It's not as dramatic looking as the photograph, so I can't say I'm that happy with it.