The King and his Queen - Oil Painting

Oil painting on stretched canvas 173 x 123cm

This painting was done in 2005-2006, over the course of 2-3 months. It is one of my very first oil paintings. I discovered the joy of oil painting whilst doing this painting, and it is one of my favourite work.

It was inspired from a photo. It represents the silent relationship between a cat and its owner, interrupted by something or someone. It was purposely left uncompleted. This is a simple but yet a loving picture of a non subliminal message. The open space around the figures, quite empty and desolate, strengthens the bound between the cat and its owner. Those two need each other, therefore create the bound that I wanted to establish in the painting. It is not the figures that are important but the togetherness and the relationship between the 2 of them.

Only 4 colours was used: Burnt sienna, Yellow Ochre, Permanent Blue and Cadmium red. And White titanium