{"id":2283,"date":"2012-11-20T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2021-03-21T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T07:59:00","slug":"mackintosh-the-coloured-pencil-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2012\/11\/mackintosh-the-coloured-pencil-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackintosh the coloured pencil cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Norma\u00a0submitted\u00a0her work to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonartcollege.co.uk\/tutors\/Julie-Douglas-london-art-college-course-tutor.htm\">Julie Douglas<\/a> who tutors the coloured pencil extension course which\u00a0Norma\u00a0is currently\u00a0studying\u00a0on. I emailed Norma to ask if she\u00a0would\u00a0write a little something about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cat-portraitartist.com\">cat portrait<\/a> for our college news blog. We would like to thank Norma officially for writing this for us. We love your cat portrait here in the office and I&#8217;m sure Julie will have the answer about the whiskers! : )<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/div>\n<div>Glad that you liked my cat portrait of Mackintosh, he&#8217;s our family cat with attitude who loves to be the centre of attention. I used black card for the first time with Polychromos, Derwent Coloursoft and white drawing pencil. Building up the white was quite a challenge and there were many subtle colours in the fur.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have not quite finished the cat portrait as Mack has magnificent white whiskers which baffled me. Im waiting for advice from my tutor Julie Douglas.\u00a0Starting with his eyes I loved seeing my cat come to life in a portrait on the card.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Norma (coloured pencil extension course)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lac-blog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2288\" title=\"lac-blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lac-blog2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lac-blog2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lac-blog2-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norma\u00a0submitted\u00a0her work to Julie Douglas who tutors the coloured pencil extension course which\u00a0Norma\u00a0is currently\u00a0studying\u00a0on. I emailed Norma to ask if she\u00a0would\u00a0write a little something about her cat portrait for our college news blog. We would like to thank Norma officially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-art-courses-artwork","wpcat-6-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mackintosh the coloured pencil cat!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Norma\u00a0submitted\u00a0her work to Julie Douglas who tutors the coloured pencil extension course which\u00a0Norma\u00a0is currently\u00a0studying\u00a0on. 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