Jillian bid on a custom pet portrait offered at a Purrfect Pals fundraiser where she was a lab tech. She wrote me a heartfelt letter about her cat, who had been an indoor/outdoor cat who had caught FIV, and then died, years later.
This cat was hard for me to finish because I wanted to capture the torn ears, the inside/outside life, and of course his personality.
One of my cats was dying too while I was painting this and Jillian's story hit home.
Indoor/outdoor cats don't live as long as indoor cats and are more succeptable to illnesses.
He looks rather stately, the eyes are great!
ReplyDeletewah, those letters are SO HARD TO READ ("please prove you are not a robot")