Artwork / Friend Request / Leslie and Smokey
![acrylic paintings of a Maine Coone cat and a grey cat, illustration by pet artist Gwenn Seemel](/images/2022/2022LBVleslieSmokey.jpg)
Leslie and Smokey
2022
acrylic on paper
6 x 8 inches (combined dimensions)
I love painting hair—both the human stuff, like in Eleanor’s portrait for example, and the furry fluff of pets, like in Leslie’s and Smokey’s. In part, it’s the way that hair allows me to layer colors to my heart’s content, but there’s also a joy in the abstraction of it. That lines and dots can communicate the shape of Leslie and Smokey so effectively never ceases to delight me.
![painterly portrait of a fluffy cat](/images/2022/2022LBVleslieD.jpg)
![painterly portrait of a grey cat](/images/2022/2022LBVsmokeyD.jpg)