Garden Cultivator Cat Revisited and Revised

I am working on two fronts. Revising illustrations for my Book of Marvelous Cats, and slowly using up my supply of locally mined and reconstituted clay. There is just one lump of this clay remaining. The cat illustrations will take a while yet to revise if I go through my entire collection.

The cat illustration I have posted above is my recently completed revision of the Garden Cultivator Cat. I’ve attached the original smaller version at right. For this remake I didn’t have to change much in the composition because I liked the original. The larger format however, did allow me to sharpen the details and add an interesting arch to the composition.