{"id":47,"date":"2026-01-13T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:16:10","slug":"my-painting-moo-dang-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/2026\/01\/13\/my-painting-moo-dang-the-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"My Painting: Moo-dang the Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love art in general, and painting is one of the hobbies I use to express my passion for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel a strong resonance with dramatic natural lighting. Thereis a style named “Chiaroscuro” (Italian for “light-dark”) that focus on this. One of my hobbies is capturing “chiarocuro” moments from the internet or in real life by taking photos, which will be used in this painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My style is inspired by many artist and photographer, but the main inspiration of this painting is: Yuming Li<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model for today<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Moo-dang (translate to “Red pork” which is a Thai dish) is the model for today. She is the most well-behaved and lovely cat of all; her only flaw is being too clingy (how cute?). I saw her lying on top of the refridgerator and love the play of light and shadow, so I captured the moment with my iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The painting process<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Even though I had never taked a painting lesson and didn’t even know which specific colors I was using (because I painted in a caf\u00e9 that provided the supplies). I still have the courage to show you how I did it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Sketching<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2. Add the values<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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3. Add more depth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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4. Finish the details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Sketching:<\/strong> I skecthed her with a pencil, I don’t really have a technique on proportion (and it shows), but I do have a techique for deciding on light shadow area. I imagine the picture is in black and white, and focus the light and dark values. Then, I draw lines to separate them and mark the dark area with crosses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Adding values:<\/strong> I painted with basic colors to block out where it’s light or dark. When you hesitate, just choose a lighter color!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Adding depth:<\/strong> I went further with the values. Where there was brown, I applied dark brown. Where there was the beige, I applied yellow or ivory. This was also a time to apply bold colors like red and teal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Finishing details:<\/strong> I touched it up with white where the light hits and finish small details like the eyes and whiskers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    What I learned<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

    Surprisingly, painting taught me to create a system and stick with it. What comes to your mind if you only stare at the second step? Well, I thought it was ugly, haha! But I had faith in the process. Just blow the worries out of your mind and trust the system. Keep the details for later, and Voil\u00e1!<\/em> you got a cute, dramatic kitty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My aim isn’t perfection. It’s just to finish it and show it to the world. Feedback from others is often better than being wrapped up in your own vision. For example, I showed this to my mom, and she instantly commented: “Her eyes are too big, and her nose is too small”.<\/em> I totally agreed, but I hadn’t noticed because I too busy worrying about themessed up whiskers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I realized it is better to finish something and receive feedback than try to be perfect and keep it hidden away in your bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Look at her! She just look like she smells good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Exploring Chiaroscuro through Moo-dang, my “Red Pork” cat. A self-taught journey of mixing light, shadow, and the courage to show imperfect art to the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":273023487,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11420],"tags":[177,12710,5308,789,20325,231379256],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-cat","tag-creativity","tag-kitty","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgTbA2-L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/medytic.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dang_crop-1.jpg?fit=2159%2C2450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273023487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medytic.blog\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}