Painting Craft Project--Primitive Cat Paintings

The article called Twice as Nice! in the October 2010 issue of Quick & Easy Painting provides a good opportunity to experiment with the Primitive Style of Painting. The two cat paintings are interpretations of the opposite ends of the Primitive Style. One has texture and dimension, which is closer to the European School of Painting, and the other is flat, which is one of the hallmarks of the Primitive Style. The techniques used to create these two are as opposite as the final products. In the one that has texture and dimension, the techniques used involved building up the form through the application of color in layers and the rendering of the fur in detail. The techniques used to create the one that is flat were the opposite of the first one. The color was applied in a more solid fashion and the fur was painted in blocks of color instead of at the strand level.