It's the art: Felicia

This is the smallest oil painting I made since I went back to the paintbrushes about 5 years ago. It is a portrait of Felicia, our cat. For some reasons I tend to look down on small formats, as if they are not worth the effort. So it takes me forever to complete a painting, I am not able to finish more than 2 or 3 per year.

Oil on cardboard, 18x24cm (Click on image to enlarge)

Then I read Karin Jurick's "One paint a day" blog, which struck me with its freshness and original perception of everyday event. Karin's paintings are of a small size - in general 15x15 cm, and they have a zen-like immediacy that make them look as if they were painted with a few, spotless strokes. And they are done in few hours!

So I decided to test myself with a smaller format, still it took me about 3 days to complete it and I am far away from Karin's level. Quite an interesting exercise though, I will experiment more on this.