Big Cat Art

Big Cat Art

Big Cat Art:

The Big Cat in art is a magnificent animal, their strength and agility just leaves me in wonder. I am sure when you have seen these cats on television it is a mesmerizing thing to see such a powerful and skilled beast in front of you.

Cousin to our smaller counterparts, the house hold cat. They also hold a bond with us, not in the way our smaller feline friends do. These cats are a power house!

Art has shown their agility and strength, their fighting and hunting has burst onto our canvases and into our sculptures.

If you have never done any such art as the big cat, this is going to be your chance.

They not only make a good subject, this animal teaches us allot about ourselves, the power of our own wild spirit and how we want to portray them. It is an exercise in art that I want you to take on.

"The big cat is going to bring out the wild in you". Just don't jump into the canvas yourself, because you may become entranced within their will upon your own thoughts.

I am going to take you through many different styles of big cat art on canvas and in sculpture, as we go through these lessons.

"It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop, and if the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended".-Auguste Rodin

Working with art on canvas, you are in a sense, working in one dimension, Yet; when working with sculpture you are working in a thousand dimensions.

"By the way, my subscribers to "Pet Art Newsletter" get more tips and tricks on discovering which ways are the best in approaching this most powerful of subjects and how to succeed in getting the most out of the big cat in art"

Whatever medium you work with, or even both. Your are going to love to work with this animal.

A working foundation of your overall subject of the lion needs to be understood well, so lets have a more detailed look

Lets have a look at the patterned look of leopard spots and just how they are uniform to all of its breed.

The tigers stripes are another intricately patterned formation that serves as its camouflage, lets see how you go about following its patterns.

Drawing the front of lion presents its own difficulties. I'm going to show you some basic guide lines to make this area in art much easier for you.

No two pairs of the big cats eyes are the same, This page gives you an in depth look at the eyes that are the soul.

The male lions face is framed by his majestic mane, so how do we make sure that the mane blends in so well with the rest of his face?

A question is set.... what is better, to draw one tiger or more in your art piece.

The cheetah is long and lean.... lets have a closer lesson on how to go about drawing this most wonderful big cat.

Do you like black panther art ? I know I do, so lets have a look at some wonderful examples of what the panther gives back in its paintings.

Lion Sculptures have been done through out time, lets have a look at some examples and why the lion is so popular in sculpture form.

The full burst of the cheetahs speed is so dramatic, so how do we create this impact in our own cheetah art.

The white tiger is unusual, lets have a look at some real pictures of this unusual big cat and the art that has been done by other artists.

When Cheetahs are painted in different mediums, they look altogether so different, so lets have a look at what painting techniques you like the best.

Lion art can present its own problems so lets tackle one of them head on.

Lets talk about what surroundings can do for your big cat subject.

A different angle to lion drawing, lets get away from the usual system of how to lay out your art, and try something different.

When you look at a fountain, more than not you will come across some lion head fountains. Lets have a look at some different styles.

To use a photo or not to use a photo when starting a lion pencil drawing, is this OK for a true artist to do or not.

Tackling the daily life of a lion cub in art what do we need to take into account.

A page focusing on other artists and their art work that they have created in their personal contributions on this page- Big Cats in Art and the Artists behind them