The background is done using the brush and pencil technique by Julie Podstolski, and the cat is primarily oil pastels with a finishing layer of colored pencils, Caran D'ache Luminance.
Arches Huile Paper 31x41cm
In alchemy, putrefactio is the crucial stage of decomposition and rotting where old forms break down completely. Represented by the blackening or nigredo, this process reduces materials to a uniform black mass. It is the essential death of the old before spiritual or physical rebirth.
Was wondering what would happen if we stack the Hopf fibres...tried the flower of life arrangement for each layer. a bit of a crude video, sped up.
Drawing by me. Sketch pencil in procreate