So now that my layer is dry, I want to go in here and mix an even deeper orange. So I'm going to reignite what I have left in my palette or I can mix it up a little more. And then I'm going to mix it in with some of this Van Dyck Brown. And this still preserves the orange but makes it still warm and just darker. So it's not glowing orange, it's just a deeper color here. gonna pick some of my brush.

And with a sharp point, I'm going to echo the shape of the initial stripes we put down but I'm going to do it much, much smaller scale, just like this. Then I'm going to take my brush and just pull that color down. Like little hair strokes. Do the same thing in a center. Always going thicker at were at the top of the head. And I'm going to overlap all the layers that I did on our first time making the stripes.

And I'm just introducing some of this light this darker color, but in smaller areas. It's as if we're we created shadows first and now we're going into make the actual object that created the shadows. Over here, I'm just going to make brushstrokes. And then from our stripes on the side, I'll just create another layer on top. You can do this layer as many times as you want, as many as you'd like. And it adds a lot of depth to our painting.

Gotta come over here. Just pull a few hairs over here by the nose. I'm gonna make a little puddle of this color on the side and add a little more of that Van Dyck Brown. Get it nice and deep. And then with a very sharp point, I'm going to go over my eyes. Turn my paper if it's easier.

Same thing here with the mouth. I'm using this color instead of black. You can use black if you like. I think with this cat and the coloring, they're Brown, the rich warm brown is a nice effect. And we'll let this layer dry. We'll come back and work on the nose.