meet my friend, kitty. though she is better known online by the moniker, crumpled foreskin!

the photo is from a mermaid-themed shoot she did last year for paul fessey photography. i thought it was rather lovely image and wanted to try to do a painting of it at somepoint.

please note that all copyright of this photograph belongs to ‘paul fessey photography’ - i am simply reposting the image to show my source of inspiration. you can check out more of his excellent work on flickr [link]

well, i never managed to break out the paints, but i did make a start on a digital sketch…

although this is still very much a work-in-progress, i’m reasonably pleased with it so far.

i haven’t made any real effort to work on a likeness yet so it really doesn’t look much like kitty. but hopefully i’ll get working on it again soon, and post the finished results.