Cat Looking Down Tutorial - beginner - intermediate (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

Here is the first cat tutorial. This is a fairly quick painting to complete.

There's lots of wet on wet work and a small amount of detail (not too much).

The background forms the edge of the cat so it will give you practice painting a background.

The reference photo I used was taken by by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay. Here is the link if you’d like to download it yourself: https://pixabay.com/photos/cat-animal-white-feather-5328304/  I have also put the link on the Supplies List.

All of the files you need are attached below my message here. Click on them to download them. I have included and enlarged version of the line drawing that you can print on two pages. It should be the same size as my painting.

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Indexes:

This tutorial will be on the indexes so you can find it when you are ready to paint it.

Index on my website: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

Patreon clickable index: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34865676

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Some information for beginners: I used a Saunders Waterford watercolour block to paint my cat. Blocks are pads of watercolour paper that have the pages gummed together. You paint on the top page and then when you are finished painting you insert a blunt knife into the little gap between the pages and release the top page by running your knife under it. Blocks are great for plein air painting (painting outside) or if you want to do some practice inside and don't want to be bothered stretching your paper. Personally, I wouldn't use them for a proper finished painting because the paper always has some waves in it when I have finished.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial.

Thanks,

Louise

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A note about the messaging system: I am experiencing problems with the messaging system here on Patreon at the moment. The links to the tutorials that I send all new patrons are changing after I have sent them and they don't work. I have contacted the Patreon help centre and they have said it is a glitch on their end. They are working on fixing it.