Iryna, that title alone stopped me. A quiet companion with eyes like amber. The way you frame your subjects feels like you're introducing us to someone you know deeply.

The companion part lands. I kept a plaster hand on the workbench for two years, never quite sure what it was for, then one day it made sense as the thing that kept me coming back to the studio when nothing else did. You chose a good subject for that.

That gray you're describing, the amber in the eyes, those details settle a painting. I spent an hour once trying to get the grain right in a piece of walnut, kept thinking it was the figure in the wood that mattered, but it was the one knot that anchored the whole board. You named what holds the piece.

It is very hard to paint a cat.You have done exceptionally well with the fur.I have troubledoing fur but you are inspiring me