Cougar on Snowy Ledge

My christmas/winter holiday card for this year! Yay! I decided not to procrastinate this year. Go me.

If you don't know me, then you don't know that I design and paint a christmas card for my family to send out each year; this is my 6th or so year doing so.

Anyhow. A cougar. Looking over a ledge. I think I saw a photograph that I based it off of; I painted this off a coloured pencil sketch I made some time back. And yes; this picture is freakishly small in reality. The cougar's face is about the size of my thumbnail. Talk about painstaking. Hence the lack of detail I usually pore over in most of my tempera paintings.

Done in tempera paint on 5"x7" pastel paper. Clocked at 7 hours.


EDIT

...Snap. A DD? How random is this? o___o; No, I'm serious, this is really weird. This painting isn't that great. >__>; Uhm. Thank you? XD;