Here's the painted up Back Beat Betty.

This first version is straight watercolor and gouache.

This one was manipulated a bit with Photoshop.

I added two layers.

One filled with purple in the dark areas and set to multiply with a 70 percent opacity.

The other is a duplicate of the purple layer that I added noise to with the noise filter and then reduced the opacity to 50 percent.

It gives it a better feeling of her being in a spotlight up on stage.

I think I might have to go in and add her shadow that would be cast by the spotlight. Not sure about that though.

I also might go back in and add some more details to her to make her look more like a bobcat.

Notice she doesn't have any whiskers or any markings.

I have a good reference pick that I have been using for her so I'll go back to it and "plus" her up.

She's the first in a series that I want to do.

It's a series of Beatnic animals.

I have to get to the library and see if I can actually find any books on beatnics.

I'l also have to look up some musical phrases to be able to name the rest of the characters.

Some of the ideas for characters are a cat fish, yak, toucan, squirrel, mouse, sloth,...