This started out as a failed floral painting, which was a perfect opportunity for experimenting . After all, I had nothing to lose. The beauty of acrylics is that you can always paint over the parts you don't like, and use a failed painting as an underpainting. By using some negative painting, I was able to leave some of the interesting background, which became the fur of the cats. These could be cats on another planet, since there appears to be a planet resembling earth, above the head of the middle cat.