Paintings of Kenya - "Lady Killer"
Keith McAllister - Paintings of Kenya
This female cheetah I have painted before. She’s the same girl from ‘The Elegant Killer’, a painting which did a lot for my artistic career. It then was with great pleasure that I sketched out another composition based on the reference material I had gathered on her, and about five or six other cats I had seen on that safari.
I thought I would use some warmer colours in this painting to bring the image out a bit more and make the viewer engage with it, there being little sense of depth to the piece. It is a very in-your-face composition and the warmth of the tones bring it to the forefront. It helps, I suppose, to feminise the cat as well which helps, as I think she would look a bit butch without it.
Size: 20 X 24 inches
Location: Maasai Mara, Kenya
Species: Cheetah
Frame: NA
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