Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Background Change on Maine Coon

While I had the oil pastels out I painted a Maine Coon cat using both oil pastels and acrylics. I used a grey mountboard to work on and didn't add a background.


However after revisiting the image I decided the colour of the background didn't add anything at all, in fact I decided it was detracting from the cat. So gave it a blended oil pastel background.


Here are the before and after versions, I've also changed the crop on the final version although I'm still undecided on that.







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6 comments:

  1. Bev3:30 AM

    The darker background looks so much better Gayle, but not sure of the crop, I prefer the original.
    I didn't know you used oil pastels?

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  2. Unknown5:45 AM

    Wow what difference the background made. And I like the crop also. Beautiful!

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  3. Brenda6:59 AM

    What a difference! The background really makes this cat look gorgeous!!

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  4. Bev7:36 AM

    I left a comment earlier today, but it doesnt seem to have made it onto your blog...strange. I just wanted to say that I like the new background very much, it is very effective, and I prefer the original crop.

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  5. Gayle Mason9:22 AM

    I'm glad you all like the darker background, I'm still undecided on the crop. I might add the left corner of the cat in so that it isn't quite so disembodied head looking.

    I've only just started using oil pastels Bev, I quite like them but get frustrated with the difficulty in creating detail.

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  6. Unknown3:37 AM

    WOW does that pop now with the change in BG. Beautiful job Gayle.

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