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Black & White Shorthaired cat Acrylic painting

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MURPHIE
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Large Heart

Painting details:
PORTRAIT COMPLETED:
August 2016
​This was a special memorial painting of Murphie who sadly passed away in 2015 at the grand age of 20. Black & white animals are always challenging, as there is such a huge contrast in tones and the most important stage is balancing the undertones. A neutral background was added to avoid detracting from Murphie herself and those beautiful eyes of hers.
Black and white british shorthaired cat painted in acrylic paints on an MDF heart
Heart portraits can be freestanding or can be purchased in a box frame or with a metal stand. This portrait was ordered to hang, so a wall hook was applied to the back.
Scarlet Macaw photograph
Reference image:
Murphie the black and white shorthaired cat
This image was chosen as the reference image as it was the best of the bunch. As Murphie had passed away in 2015, there were few suitable photos of Murphie, so I had to search the internet and use other photos of shorthairs for detail and shading.
Customer Testimonial:
Black and white british shorthaired cat painted in acrylic paints on an MDF heart
"Thank you for taking the time and patience to get to the final result - I know from what you have said that her colouring was a challenge at times and I must admit it has been an eye opener to see the entire process from start to finish.  
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I have had a couple of friends already express an interest in having portraits painted of their dogs after seeing Murph's progress so you may yet end up with some more commissions!

Thanks again, especially for making the whole process so easy from my point of view!"
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About Traditional Hearts:
Each portrait is hand painted on a heart shaped, 18mm deep sheet of MDF using professional quality Heavy Body GOLDEN Acrylics which contain the largest assortment of unique pure pigments to offer excellent permanency and lightfastness.
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Large size
​£140.00 Each (Single Subject)
​£160.00 Each (Double Subject)
Size: 8"w x 7"h
Cm's = w20cm x h18cm x d1.8cm

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