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Just a suggestion, Jeff. You'd be much better off spending your limited and valuable painting time doing old master copies rather than doing paintings of cats for practice and learning.
Your goal is to convincingly render skintones, not fur, and there is so much to learn from the masters regarding posing, lighting and values. The photos of your wife's cats may even have been taken with a flash which will not help you render form.
I love my cats but in twenty years I haven't spent even one hour painting them. Well, maybe I've gotten paint ON them a few times, but that's a different story....
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