One final furbaby, this is Trixy, photo ref by surob from wetcanvas.  I painted this with gouache in a brown paper sketchbook. the paper was not very absorbant so it is painted fairly loose

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This is Bunny , special friend to Robert or 'scappy' from wetcanvas. He led us through a wonderful workshop in painting fur. Bunny is paitned in gouache on a watercolor background

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This one is one of my cats, Lacey. She is a little thing, who does not know that she is disabled. She was attacked by a tom cat when she was a couple months old. She sufferes from a crushed disc in her back, and also has a heart murmur. We did not know if she would ever walk again, but she is now 7 yrs old , walks and gallops about with a dog-track gate, is fearless but also codependant

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I have been playing with Gouache lately and trying to learn how to paint fur through the Learning Zone of wetcanvas. There was a wonderful workshop offered by wetcanvas' Scappy, who is a marvelous artist.
the first offering is Rowdy, an australian blue heeler, photo ref by missswiss

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Osprey

This was a 20 min challenge with Gouache on 6x6 gessoboard. the board had a failed WC painting, so I gessoed over and got a lovely smooshy green color so left it as BG. used a 3/4 flat and quickly painted the osprey with colors- FUB and BSfor the darks, white, a touch of BS and naples yellow for the eye.

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Two Tomatos

This took and hour,  painted with acrylics on a canvas card for my friend



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Canada Thistle

This is another 6x8, but this time I used Daniel Smith watercolor ground on archival mat board. sprayed a WC background then when dry painted with gouache.

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