Drawing and Painting Cats

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How to Draw and Paint Cats

Gayle Mason SOFA (full member of the Society of Feline Artists) shares information about how to draw and paint cats.
This site lens includes links to cat drawings, lessons in drawing cats, artists who blog about cat art, art materials, art reference books, books about cats,exhibitions including feline art forums for animal artists and societies for feline art and cat breeds.
This site will be updated on a regular basis.
Do you have a friend who is interested in feline art? If you do why not e-mail this lens to them - click on the e-mail icon in the left hand column

Please note: The authors of all images and text in all links posted here own the copyright

What information does this lens provide? 

  • Lessons in cat drawing.
  • Art Materials
  • Animal Art Instruction Books
  • Animal and Wildlife Art Forums
  • Feline Art Societies
  • Art Exhibitions that include Feline Art
  • Breed Societies
  • Artists who blog about feline art

How to draw cats, demonstrations will be added on a regular basis 

As well as demonstrations, you can see regular updates to the felines I'm drawing and painting, on my blog and website.

Lessons on drawing cats 

Cats Eye
A demonstration on how to create a lifelike looking cats eye in coloured pencil.
How to Draw Dog Hair
This demonstration is actually about drawing dog hair. It has been written by Mike Sibley and is excellent. You can adapt it to drawing cat hair as the same basics apply.

Art Materials:Supports that I use on a regular basis 

Links to Suppliers/information.

Arches Hot Press Watercolour Paper Wikipedia entry
Arhes Hot Press Watercolour paper is a beautifully smooth heavyweight paper in a creamy white colour. Perfect for fine detail in wet or dry media.
Ampersand Pastelbord,
Pastelbord is a clay and gesso coated hardboard panel with a granular marble dust finish.
Polydraw 75 micron roll
I use Polydraw 75 micron manufactured by West Design which is described as a double matt surface polyester film.
I will provide a link when I find a supplier of the 75 micron pads rather than the roll.
I understand that in countries other than the UK an equivalent product is mylar.

Animal and Widlife Art Forums 

Animal and Wildlife Drawing Forum at Artpapa
This forum is moderated by Mike Sibley probably the UK's most popular graphite canine artist.
Animal and Wildlife Subjects at Wetcanvas

Feline Art Societies 

The Society of Feline Artists.
A society founded in 1994 to promote the work of the best feline artists, incuding artists as yet unknown.
The website has examples of members work, a link to their blog and details of the annual exhibition held at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery.

Art Exhibitions 

The main UK exhibition featuring domestic cats is the one held by the Society of Feline Artists.
This is an annual exhibition held at the LLewellyn Alexander Gallery in London.
This year it will be held from the 01/09 to the 20/09
The Llewellynn Alexander Gallery
I have exhibited at the last two exhibitions and will be there again in 2008.
The following Exhibitions do not include domestic cats.
National Exhibition of Wildlife Art

Artists Who Regularly Blog about cats 

Fur in the Paint
My own blog that describes how I produce my animal art. Plus you can meet my family of Rough Collie Dogs, the Glenspey Collies.
Making a Mark
The Making a Mark Blog is run by my friend and fellow artist Katherine Tyrrell. There is a huge amount of information for artists on her blog. Katherine updates daily on a wide range of topics conected with the art world.
The link takes you to her feline art posts.
Greywaren Art
Read about Maggie Stiefvater's criminally insane cat Moose.

Gayle Mason Fine Art 

Galleries of cat drawings, dog drawings, wildlife art, rough collie art

Viit my website
Gayle Mason Fine Art
You can see my range of limited edition prints, fine art cards, plus my work in progress.

Comments asnd Suggestions 

Any suggestions?, but please no spam.

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Lene wrote

Hi
great info. I see you mention Ambersand Pastelbord as a support you use. Are you able to find that in UK ? If not, isn't it very expensive to ship from US ??
cheers, Lene

Reply Posted November 10, 2008

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Sheona wrote...

Great idea for a lens. Zooming in on how you get such good results is a real treat thank-you. 5* from here!

ReplyPosted September 30, 2008

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katya wrote

your drawings are great and i hope some day i can draw like you.... your demonstration of how 2 draw a cat's eye was sooooo cool... thank you soooo much it helped me a lot... ^_^

Reply Posted August 06, 2008

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Jeannine Stone wrote

Lot of great tips here thanks,
Jeannine

Reply Posted June 27, 2008

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makingamark wrote...

This is looking good Gayle! I'm favouriting it and adding it to the lensroll on my feline art lens. Lots of good things to come as well I hope.

ReplyPosted February 29, 2008

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