How To Paint Cats In Acrylic

Starting with burnt umber i sketched in the main shapes of the cat then dipping the brush in water i colored in the rest of the canvas.

How to paint cats in acrylic. The idea is to end with the lightest highlight color on the top layer. Pencil will erase on the canvas paint the cat in black using a small round brush. It may irritate the cats skin and mucous membranes but it should not lead to poisoning in small amounts. Acrylic paint is generally safe for cats and its not toxic if your pet happens to lick and ingest it in small amounts.

Use a rigger brush for painting a cats whiskers its a thin long brush ideal for painting lines. As i mentioned before im painting a portrait of my calico cat. Keep reading to learn more about painting animals in acrylic. This painting was done using acrylic paints.

Addition of the white pencil sketchi create a simple brief sketch using a soft white pencil over the now dry. Maybe you want to pick a beloved pet or go for something more fierce like a tiger. Begin layering individual strands of fur over the base color gradually lightening the tones with each new layer. Draw paint the cat or cats then i drew the cat with pencil.

Before you begin figure out what you want to paint. Instead of painting a line scrape in a line into the wet paint using the back of a brush a fingernail or sharp corner of a painting knife a painting technique known as sgraffito. It helps to imagine each layer of fur sitting on top of the one before it like shingles on a house each one overlapping the other slightly. Either way select a reference photo thats well lit.

I am using an acrylic primed cotton canvas panel to do this painting so i was able to do the rough sketch with acrylic burnt umber and water. In todays beginners acrylic painting tutorial how to paint a cat this is a re edit and has been re uploaded as the original was poor quality this is a lesson of how to paint only. Where the paint was overly watery i left it to run knowing i would glaze over this later and thinking it could create interesting textureshapes below the glazes.