I love the accent colors that seem to have created a tone emanating from the eyes -- as if the green eyes were illuminating the fur. It's also a neat trick when painting to toss in some accents that don't belong in the real world, but in a painting they jazz it up and sort of electrify what would otherwise be a fairly boring color if left nearly monochromatic.
It's interesting how when zoomed way way in on a digitized image at the pixel level we can see lots of adjacent raw colors which blend together when backed away from create an even mixed looking color scheme. So when we sample a color from a digitized image, we will often get unexpected colors that seem to not relate to what we're looking at. In this case it really worked, if in fact it was sort of accidental. If it was deliberate, the accent colors are well though out. Either way, it really works, and the experience from this will definitely be useful in other paintings when and if you choose to select accents.
Nice one! I love it. I love cats anyway, and would like it even if done in a wild distortion by Picasso. But I really like your painting as a painting.
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