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This is the completed painting of the black leopard, titled "Intimidation – Black Leopard"<\/strong> (5" x 7"). My object for this painting was to capture the intense gaze and the action expressed in in the cat’s position – a feeling that he may lunge at any moment.<\/p>\n As mentioned earlier, I tried to keep the subtle qualities of the tones and such adding the contrast of the cat’s strength and focus and delicacy. The precious metals (24kt shell gold\/sterling silver) were added to the eyes and sheen of the fur and other area that would add an extra glow. As in all of my work, I am working for realism and the honed look of refined miniature painting, so the touches of these illuminations (as always) are very soft so not to be gaudy or have a glaring tinsel look to them – only subtle and elegant enhancement. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n You can see the beginning of the painting posted here from back in December<\/a> and further progress here<\/a>. The original was sold in February at a gallery exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the completed painting of the black leopard, titled "Intimidation – Black Leopard" (5" x 7"). My object for this painting was to capture the intense gaze and the action expressed in in the cat’s position – a feeling that he may lunge at any moment. As mentioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_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":[6,11,39,17,18,19],"tags":[48,53,57,58,65,77,526,111,161,194,198,203,205,220,650,222,246,248,257,270,273,287,315,325,348,355,357,1381,385,410,445,463,464,472],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-galleries-shows","category-cats","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-paintings-of-animals","tag-24kt-gold","tag-animal","tag-area","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-big-cat","tag-black-leopard","tag-cat","tag-exhibition","tag-fur","tag-gallery","tag-glow","tag-gold","tag-illuminated","tag-illuminations","tag-in-miniature","tag-latham","tag-leopard","tag-look","tag-miniature","tag-miniature-painting","tag-moment","tag-original","tag-painting","tag-progress","tag-realism","tag-rebecca","tag-sheen","tag-shell-gold","tag-sterling-silver","tag-watercolor","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-art","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}