The big thing about this painting is that I didn't outline everything in black. I usually get to doing that when I add so many details. I saved the black for the wrought iron and a few small places where it should be. Apple Barrel acrylics over pencil on standard sketchbook paper. It's about 14" by 9".
I had a painting from 2002 that I finally put up in my kitchen, of fish swimming in a pond. It makes me happy to see it there. It took me a very long time to admit that I saw it in my mind's eye often and wanted it on full display. Tonight, I finally acted (with some nudge from Mark pointing me towards the frame I had forgotten I had) and hunted down this little cat drawing. I knew I had seen it recently, and it is another one of those that comes to mind again and again... it is joyful, and the lines are elegant.
So, here it is imperfectly 'matted' with a sheet of wallpaper with a hole cut in it and some artist tape hinges behind it. It is hanging up in my sewing room where I will see it often.
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