• 23Dec

  Black Leopard Progress…

  Commissioned Paintings, Large Cat Paintings & Sketches, Paintings, Paintings in Little - Small Miniature Paintings, Paintings of Animals
  

  This is the progress of the black leopard watercolor painting that I have been working on (see an earlier post here).  It is beginning to have the feeling of mood and atmosphere that I am striving for in this painting.  I will be refining it further (which, I suppose, is difficult to tell being that this photo is a bit web dithered… )  and adding other details to it as well.

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  Posted by Rebecca @ 6:47 pm

  Tags: art, artist, artwork, felines, fine_art, leopard, miniature_art, miniature_painting, painting, watercolor, wildcats, wildlife, wildlife_art

8 Responses

• Lene Daugaard Says:
  January 24th, 2008 at 4:31 am

  Hi Rebecca
  First - I am a great admirer of yours and your familys paintings. Outstanding and beautiful wildlife artwork. Being my favorite subjects too, I love to look at skilled artists drawings and paintings of animals.
  I have read your article: “7 tips for artists, how to paint miniature art”, but would like to ask a bit more about the procedure itself. Somewhere else on your site (or your mothers site?) I read that miniature art is the same as Flemish painting. I have then tried to find information about that. I found a site explaning this process for oil-paintings, but actually didn’t understand it very well, and couldn’t quite “translate” it into painting with watercolors, as you do.
  Could I ask you to explain the 7 steps of Flemish painting regarding watercolors ? It seems to me this is not just what you usually call a graisille underpainting ??
  cheers, Lene

• Dennis Johnson Says:
  February 6th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  One more thing. You are quite beautiful also. Just an admirer’s compliment DJ

• Artdoctor Says:
  March 12th, 2008 at 8:57 am

  Wow! So beautiful! I just found this site and it is amazing! I’m 13 and I love doing watercolour paintings more than anything else. Right now I’m working on a large stag. Your work is truly inspirational!

• Madhurya Says:
  March 15th, 2008 at 4:43 am

  WoW!!! I’m totally speechless!!! Your paintings are too good!!! They are so real !!!! Guess you love animals…… excellent work!!!! looking forward for more!

• Artist & Painter Rebecca Latham’s Nature & Wildlife Art » Intimidation - Black Leopard Miniature Painting Completion Says:
  March 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  [...] can see the beginning of the painting posted here from back in December and further progress here. The original was sold in February at a gallery [...]

• delia bracamonte Says:
  April 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  hello i just wanted to say your work is a beautiful thing… great job

• rebeccalatham Says:
  April 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 pm

  Hi Madhurya & Delia - Thank you so much!!

  Best,

  Rebecca

• rebeccalatham Says:
  April 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 pm

  Lene, Dennis, Artdoctor,

  Thank you so much for your comments as well!! I’m so happy that you like my work!

  Lene - I learned to paint watercolors from an artist from Belgium - Carl Brenders. You can see what Carl does in this book - “More Wildlife Painting -
  Techniques of Modern Masters” by Susan Rayfield (published by Watson
  Guptill ISBN: 0-8230-5747-x ). It has an overview of his painting
  process. He was taught in his home country.

  Miniature painting has deep Flemish roots….but not all Flemish art is miniature painting. Miniature painting is simply very detailed and refined artwork. ….but some early Flemish work is simply stunning, and a lot of nature influences in their work, also.

  (The article I wrote about the 7 tips for miniature painting is really about miniature painting in general and isn’t specific to the methods that I use in watercolors.)

  Hope this helps…

  Best,

  Rebecca

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