This lil girl reminded me so much of Autumn Eyes that I started her background using a similar color scheme on her. Nice & warm! (The background will get another coat, too.)

Ashley is a silvery/gray kitty who I thought would just look stunning against this purpley-plum background. I’ve blocked in the background, her eyes and nose since Barkley is still somewhat tacky from yesterday’s session. I will probably get another one started too before I get back to Barkley.

Here we go! I went ahead and sketched out 8 of the 11 paintings I’ll be working on over the next few weeks. I am still waiting on a few things for the other three, so I’ll get those up as soon as I get what I’m waiting for.

Since there are so many, and one of them is a PG-13 Pose (yes, it is an animal!), I’m going to “hide” them.

Just read on to see the eye candies!

Here’s the final scan & eye close-ups on Luke & Ella’s portrait.

I’m going to be pretty busy today, so I’m not sure when I’ll be postin’ those sketches for you of my next portraits. Stop back again later tonight!

It’s finally done! I am going to go to bed at a decent hour tonight, so I’ll get the sketch(es) up tomorrow of my next piece(s)!!! Oh yea, I’ll scan this one too – both of their eyes turned out amazing, and you can’t see it here in this pic. Foo! You’ll see tomorrow.
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I’ve turned on my new fancy-schmancy webcam, and I’ll be finishing up Luke & Ella today if ya wanna watch!

I’ll sketch out my next piece after this one is finished, so you’ll see that one up here tonight, too.

I’m going to add a few more details to Luke today (just a few I swear, that boy has been getting ALL of my attention!), and then on to Ella. See the difference in the digital pics in daylight vs. my nighttime “daylight” lamps? Wierd, huh?

Hey and how cool is this? I was just looking at my referrers, this one is cool! Search results for “Leanne” on MSN!

I worked on Luke tonight, he’ll be getting yet another coat of fur tomorrow before I start finishing up Ella.

I just finished the underpainting, now mom don’t get too worried, everything but the background will have a fresh & detailed layer right on top of this one!

The background is a nice rich brick red, lightened with a buttercream (not the butter, the paint that looks like butter.) in the foreground. So hey, Taba, how about brick red?