My sister has been abroad for many years but is coming back to the United Kingdom soon, sadly though having to leave her two scrappy street cats she adopted in Mexico behind for a while.
I thought I’d illustrate her two substitute children as a surprise to tide her over.
I used a variety of different materials to create these paintings, I found that using charcoal and pastel over a watercolour painting created some really great fur texture, along with scribblings of white pen.
Funnily enough, the ‘cuddling’ cats picture was saved from the ‘crap pile’ by my mum, and without her intervention, they would be lost.
I often discard work through pure emotion, as I get easily frustrated if things don’t turn out the way I’d hoped. My mum insists on going through all my recent painting fails when she visits (nosy!), dragged the pair out and made me resee the potential, so I worked on them some more, and now I’m really happy with the result and, more importantly so is my sister — thanks mum!
