painting practice

I was recently studying one of my favorite artists, Zinaida Serebriakova, a Russian painter, and was trying to decided why I liked her work. As I studied it I realized that it was becuase of her painterly effect! So after staring at many of her works, despite being sick, I wanted to try and see how painterly in comparison I could get with her on the computer! haha! You be the judge, but I feel pretty satisfied with my result. Needless to say I am in heaven! (I also did this as a sort of forgiveness thing. My sister made the cat for me and when I moved from home I lost it...and only recently did I get it back. :P oops! Sorry Missa! ^_^)