Peanut - A Sweet Cat Portrait in Vertical
by Conni Schaftenaar
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9.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Peanut - A Sweet Cat Portrait in Vertical
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Painting - Prismacolor Colored Pencil And Raffiné Watercolor Pencil On Duralar Film
Description
Peanut - A Sweet Cat Portrait in colored pencil and watercolor pencil, by Conni Schaftenaar
Did this to be a Christmas gift to a friend from a photo she had taken of her cat, Peanut. Image used with permission, gave it to her today and discovered that it was not a horizontal photo image (the way it arrived to me), but rather a vertical image - the cat sitting on the window sill, rubbing her face while looking at her mom taking her photo - really made me laugh, and I decided to post the vertical version with its story, also.
This is a combination of Prismacolor colored pencil and Raffiné watercolor pencil - I was trying to get the background area in the upper left to be fairly abstract, and it just wasn't working in colored pencil. So I erased all that I had done in that area (Duralar allows you to literally erase everything - sweet!) and then started using two or three colors of watercolor pencil, wetting the pencil tip, scraping color down, then using a damp brush to manipulate it around. I was much happier with that. Part of the ferns are colored pencil and most of the ferns are WC pencil, activated after putting some color down, again using a damp brush. Then WC pencil on the bricks around the cat. The cat itself is a combo of WC pencil (not activated) and colored pencil, depending on the colors I wanted. You can burnish WC pencil and colored pencil with another color on the Duralar, so there are layers of colors in the cat's fur. The eyes are WC pencil, activated, two colors to get that golden green shade.
2nd place tie in the America's #1 contest, January 2022
1st place tie in the Logo Contest for Our 4-Legged Friends Group, May 2022
3rd place tie in the Cats of Summer contest, July 2022
Honorable mention tie in the Pet Portraits contest, August 2022
3rd place tie in the Animal Drawing contest, November 2023
Featured in:
The ARTIST BUZzz, December 2021
Trick and Treat of Nature, December 2021
Vertical Images, January 2022
Cat Art, January 2022
Our 4-Legged Friends, April 2022
Welcome Fine Artists, October 2022
Creative Cats Corner, August 2023
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December 21st, 2021
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Comments (94)
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your winning 3rd Place in the contest… ANIMAL DRAWING CONTEST! F/L
Laurel Adams
Conni, CONGRATULATIONS on your WIN in the Animal Drawing CONTEST! YAY! SO WELL DESERVED!
Kay Brewer
What a sweetie! Love those big green eyes. Voted your entry in the Fair Feline contest. l/f
Gary F Richards
Spectacular Peanut - Sweet Cat composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted