Details, details

So this mural isn't ever really finished until I think it is and I put my signature to it. A few important details had to be added to the 3 Cats mural. I don't know if I told about the second daughter of Suly, also a black cat, named Eddy who owund up somewhere in the Bronx. Well she's somewhere floating around so we put her ala Chagal flying next to the moon. She looks more like she's walking, I tried to get her to look more floating but that's how she turned out. I wonder where that Eddy is? If she's still alive? Hmm I'll have to try and contact her owner, Maria. Thank God for Facebook.
Of course as homage to one of my favorite paintings, "Starry Night", we made the New York sky aglow with stars and swirls. This idea spilled over in the Moscow side with snow and white swirls. Another addition on the Moscow side was Lenin's Tomb, oh so subtley sticking out behind a rather grand Felix. Non-Russophiles may miss this detail since it is a small 3-tiered outcrop with just the "L" and "E" of the word "LENIN" visible at the top. That space was blank and it bothered me as to what to put there. Inspired by a laquered box of the Kremlin I used for painting the Moscow side, I figured why not. It is on Red Square and is apropos for the scene. But I didn't want to make a big to-do over a dead communist leader so I made it subtle. Pine trees will be added to fill in around it as is the case on Red Square.