Test Sketching

Ok, so I've moved past truck.  What do you think the next thing I would paint is?  Well, it's kitties.  Here are two that I have quickly done.  They are just quick sketches to give me a little indication of how I might paint them.  I never really know where to start with each painting so these sketches are valuable in helping me figure it out.  I think these came out kinda cute.  Be sure to look for bigger better ones next week.

I was a bit unsure of how to paint fur with watercolors.  I originally thought I might not need that much detail, but as it turns out, I don.  But it looks like there is so much going on in the tail that if I were to paint the fur on the entire cat, it might be too much.  My solution, detail on the closest part, much less detail on everything else.  It kind of worked.

This cat is sleeping in a blanket.  I tried a bit of the same technique:  more detail on the head, less as you go back.   Again I'm not sure I really got all of it, but it's a start.  At least in this one the blanket looks like it has some folds to it.