The studio wrestling champions, brothers Giuseppe Basil Verdi and Sir Jelly of Bean, engage in the kitchen but it’s all in fun. It started out when Giuseppe said his brother was a dirty mess and needed to be cleaned up and wavered between a bath and a rock ’em sock ’em boxing tournament, then flat out, literally flat out, wrestling, on the cabinet in the middel of the kitchen. I had such fun watching them wrestle and did a quick light sketch in vine charcoal then later enhanced it with more vine charcoal to blend their movements.
I outlined it in compressed charcoal and then conté when that wasn’t dark enough, and used both white charcoal and then white conté for the highlights I remembered seeing as they threatened each other and acted fierce with they ears pinned back. I needed a mid-range tone of paper to make both the black and white show up, but my pad of this paper has limited darker colors and I wasn’t fond of most of them for this. Then I decided this sanguine tone worked well with the tones in their fur.
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Paulette, I have a good scan of it and don’t need to keep it around for study. I’ll be ordering framing on Monday for your other sketch and a few other things!
Reminds me of our two brothers here..Mr Chang & Little Rascal..two fierce young boys they are..lol..they flip each other around like a couple of catnip toys!
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Please let me know if you ever decide to sell it.
Paulette, I have a good scan of it and don’t need to keep it around for study. I’ll be ordering framing on Monday for your other sketch and a few other things!
What a charming sketch!! I love it!
Thanks, Paulette, I’m sure we’ve both seen plenty of this!
Reminds me of our two brothers here..Mr Chang & Little Rascal..two fierce young boys they are..lol..they flip each other around like a couple of catnip toys!
I don’t worry about them any more, Nancy! They used to sound so fearsome, and after all that noise they are usually licking each others’ faces.