Thursday's painting...

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Another painting inspired by Lin Fengmian.
I was a bit more relaxed doing this one. I chilled out when doing the background before bed last night. Cat was asleep under the covers. But doing the vase and flowers and bowl this morning, I had a cat who was livelier than a cricket, and as many arms as an octopus. He was wrapping himself round my Pixel phone as I was trying to finish this. I am exhausted...


Yesterday, when I took Popeye for one of his daily walks round the garden. I don't let him out unattended because of the feral cat that attacks him, and because of his dementia, but I cannot take my eyes off him for a nanosecond because he vanishes. Yes, I have harness and lead, and I used to walk him on that, but he had always been an outdoors cat and misses it despite his dementia, and although he will co operate with harness and lead, he prefers walking free...


So, we now have have a few walks round the garden, with him walking free, in front of me, and he explores the undergrowth, but I only blink and he is gone, then that is me exploring the undergrowth...


The back door is always open when we do this, to let fresh air in the bungalow. When Popeye is ready to come in, I then lock the back door and he goes to his fresh bowls of food I put out for him before we go for his walk.


Well, there was no food in either bowl, the biscuits and the wet food and his treats had gone. Each bowl was spanking clean, so I thought I must have forgotten to put his food out (I always put food out before we walk round the garden, thinking that he will come back in for it if I cannot find him when he has done his Houdini act, and he does...). I thought I must be getting dementia because this has happened a few times recently.


I refill his bowls and treats, and I go and lie down for a rest. I am just dozing off when I feel Popeye getting on my lap for a sleep. I am stroking him, my eyes shut. Then I feel another set of legs climb on to my legs. I open my eyes, and there is Popeye's girlfriend...


Aha, so I don't have dementia. Thank goodness. The cunning little minx has been creeping in when I walk Popeye round the back garden and stealing all his fresh food I have just put out.


So, here is my painting for today in ZenBrush3


I might do a couple of Lin's figures the next couple of days. I rather like his women figures. But I am not a figurative painter. Quick rough sketches I can do (ish), but I don't think I have tried doing figures as the main thing in the painting before. I will have a try...

And today I used the watercolour paper in ZenBrush3, and that was more suited than the ridged paper I used yesterday.


Have a good day. I need a quick nap after wrestling with that cat...


EDIT: Just caught Popeye's girlfriend about to break entry in my bungalow...in extras...