Portrait of Taz - Finalizing Colors, and Taz Gets Whiskers!

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As I painted from the darkest colors to the lightest, I also took the opportunity to do a color correction. As you can see in the reference photo to the left, the sunlight coming from the right side of the picture is casting a warm (yellow-toned) glow on that side of the picture, but on the shadow side, the colors on Taz take on a much cooler (blue-toned) cast. So on that side, I was working with tones that were more grey than brown. Taz is a silver tabby, after all, not a brown tabby, despite the warm cast of the photo, and although the initial underpainting was grey, I had strayed a bit too far to the brown side because of all the warm tones in the picture. So I firmly established the cool areas of his face on the left. You may also notice (or the title just flat-out gave it away), that Taz has gotten whiskers on that side, as well! Even though I had a bit of finessing to do on his coat, it was developed enough to indicate the whiskers, which I will go over later to emphasize the brightness.