The Little Sunflower: From A Year Ago, Plus Today
Posted: January 23, 2012 Filed under: cat painting, cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats | Tags: cat in the sun, cat photography, cats, inspiration for painting, my cats in the sun, pastel painting, pet photography 1 Comment
The Little Sunflower
This sunny morning photo reminded me of this painting I did of Cookie many years ago, from a photo I took of her years before that. She still likes her morning sunbath in the light through the back door, all these years later, and she’s still my Little Sunflower.
My floor is a little worse for the wear, though.
And here she is on the morning of January 23, 2012.
Still my little sunflower.
The Little Sunflower, pastel © B.E. Kazmarski
Real sun worshippers, all of my cats wait for the sun to enter the house in the morning and take their appointed spots. The brilliance of that first light and its reflections around the room, plus the contrast of all the exaggerated straight-line shapes with the organic shape of little Cookie and her shadow inspired this one.
This is available as a note card in the set entitled My Cats in the Sun, available in my Marketplace.
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Mewsette Watching the Rain
Posted: January 23, 2012 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, daily photo, mewsette, photographs | Tags: black cat, cat photographs, cats, feline photographs, monochromatic photo, pet photography, photography Leave a comment
Mewsette Watching the Rain
Mewsette watches the rain in a graceful posture.
On its own, the photo is not exceptional and there’s also a bunch of stuff on the table top, but I loved Mewsette’s quiet curving silhouette as she gazed out the window. I decided to use a bunch of different techniques to soften out what I didn’t want and to accentuate what I did.
I desaturated the image, used the “ocean ripple” filter in Photoshop with a lot of action but small ripples, and then added a blue filter to give the photo a bit of mystique, that feel of a rainy day. I will occasionally create a very rough surface on drawing paper in order to achieve the same effect with pastel or charcoal.
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