FRIDAY ART CAT
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Nubia and the Grass
“Nubia (Runcie-Unger) and the Grass”. Soft pastels on paper, 16×11 inches.
I made this work after looking at an arresting photo shown to me.
Three things grabbed me about this image :
- the attitude of the black, almost aristocratic cat, looking directly at the viewer,
- the gorgeous cerulean / swimming pool blue background (one of my favourite colours)
- the ice cream tub of grass, which threw a reflection onto the cat’s jaw!
Why was there grass growing on the windowsill of the flat belonging to these cat lovers?
Of course, this is not any old grass: it is cat grass ! (Dactylis glomerata, in Latin.)
The work is rather naïve in style – what I mean by that is that the form of the cat and ice cream tub are not fully modelled, it is rather flat looking, with little perspective rendered. I wanted to let the colours sing loudly !
In fact, the lower portion of the cat is not totally present at all: this dear cat actually has a missing front paw.
Hope you like it!
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Sara Day
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I am an artist making work mostly of animals and people, specialising in oil painting and soft pastel. Three cats live with me – Maine Coon Orlando, Bengal Pandora and black moggy Rio.
If you’re interested in commissioning me for a portrait or purchasing any of my work, please contact me.
Email:
sara@sardineart.com
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/sardine.art/?hl=en
Website:
beautiful portrait!
Thank you ?
Looks like Claudia.
is Claudia your cat ?
She is. A little Diva, but very beautiful.
Waht a beautiful portrait of a black cat. I would like to ask if the art I sent to Marc will ever be featured in this section, since it seems only one artist have been featured for weeks, and if i did anything wrong when sendind my pictures. Thank you!
Hey Juliana. We got your art and I thought I replied that I’ll schedule it in when we are back from Japan.
The way our art cat section works is that one week we post a submission and the other week our own artist posts one of her creations or an interview with artists around the world. So it may seem like Sara has a lot of posts but that’s because she is our own artists that posts bi-weekly (originally weekly before we decided to open it up for guest artists)
Oh and that’s our own cat Nubia. 😀