05/26/2026
✨Cava ✨is a chow chow and the sister to Brix, who I painted at the very end of last year!
Holy cow that fur was tricky to get right! There are probably 15 layers of paint on her forehead 😂
Cava’s parents asked me to match her background to the same muted greys and blues I used for Brix back in 2025, which is quite a bit different from my usual style but I still love how it turned out
swipe to the end to see Brix’s portrait and judge for yourself if I pulled it off 👀
both portraits are 9x12 on hot press watercolor paper, which is my absolute favorite. the surface is so smooth and lets the colors and brushstrokes really pop. cold press has that texture that kind of pokes through everything and I just find it distracting, hot press just gets out of the way and lets the painting breathe
also a process video is coming for this one! no audio though because I was watching true crime the entire time I painted her 😂