In 1998 Millikan came to live with us. He was so nervous for his first 11 years that we were only allowed to pet him if we were carrying something and there was no chance that both hands could be on him at once. If we went out for an afternoon we had to remind him of who we were when we came back. In the last two years, though, he's gotten more confident and will sometimes walk across my lap.
I did these sketches in pencil when he was still a kitten.
He's so beautiful that I like to use him in illustrations. This is a pen and ink study.
In these paintings I started with the darkest areas and worked backwards to the lightest. I used pen and ink in the second one to get the darkest darks.
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