Mr Fluff

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Commiserations on the passing of Mr Fluff - who looks just a little fierce in this painting. Rarely do pastels, so haven't used Clarefontaine Ingres paper, but it looks - from the grain in this photo - to be a bit of a swine to work on. As for the white whiskers: well, you're immeasurably more experienced in this field than I am, but have you tried fixing the area, and then working over it with conté white crayon? Fools, you see, rush in where angels fear to tread - I'm sure if it was as simple as that, you'd have done it. You have a powerful memorial to your tarty old Tom here, anyway.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Mon 25 Jun 15:40:20

I'm glad he looks fierce. He used to bite my ankles if he wanted to be fed and he used to bite my hand if he wanted to be stroked!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Mon 25 Jun 17:45:07

He sounds a great character Linda. Its a lovely picture to remember him by. Love your choice of background colour. It really brings out his colouring well :)

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Tue 26 Jun 18:50:20

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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This is a predominantly pastel picture (with a little pen and ink) on Clarefontaine Ingres paper. The Derwent pastel pencils that I used were too waxy to draw the whiskers over, so I had to compromise and give him black whiskers instead of the white ones. I had to have Mr Fluff (aged 16) put down just before Xmas, because of a number of health problems and 6 months later, I have finally immortalised him. However, he was quite a tart and used to visit all the neighbours, pretending to be unloved and ill-fed. that's cats for you - no loyalty!

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Linda Wilson

Since retiring from a career in education and training management, I returned to art after a gap of 40 years. Now I travel was much as I can with my husband and take an enormous amount of photographs, some of which I use as reference photos. Meanwhile, I take a weekly course in portraiture and…

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