A ginger cat proposes a whole host of exciting opportunities for scrap materials. My favourite go-to ginger scrap item is Terry’s Chocolate Orange wrapper. In this piece, I have used aforementioned chocolate wrapping with an industrial flour sack, bread packaging, red/orange postal stamps, leaflets, old book pages, old maps, fabric samples and much more.
After sketching out the subject, my favourite step is to collect all the different shades of colour I might use together.
This commission was a secret surprise from Mother to Daughter, so the reference photos where a bit limited. I had to use my artists licence and create an image of him with his eyes open.
After the commission was received, I was sent a picture of the real Mungo looking at his portrait.
