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New painting: snow leopard

  • Writer: Sarah Cripps
    Sarah Cripps
  • Feb 5, 2023
  • 1 min read

The snow leopard is in muted, earthy colours: warm green, buff, cool yellow, grey, brown and white. I used a rag to give the background some texture, and different brushes to build up the fur. Cats always seem wrong without their whiskers, but they have to be done last - very frustrating!


I like the sense of narrative in this piece - what are those sharp eyes looking at? What’s about to happen? The falling snow provides a sense of time captured too.

Reference photo by kind courtesy of Frida Lannerstrom.

 
 
 

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