Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Cookie Has a Drink, 2011

sketch of cat drinking water
Cookie Has a Drink, graphite pencil and colored pencil © B.E. Kazmarski

Cookie has a nice long drink many times a day, and her little shape over the water bowl is so very familiar. Because she approaches the water bowl in my studio from the same angle and even holds her tail the same way, I could do this sketch in shifts, first her outline, then her dark areas, then to reinforce the fact that she is a tortoiseshell calico I added orange and yellow colored pencil to fill the color and blue in the bowl.

Because she does this frequently enough and holds pretty still for the entire time she is drinking, I think I’ll pursue ideas involving other media that take a little time to work, and also a different base, such as watercolor or oil pastel.

And so I did go on to pursue ideas involving other media. Cookie’s water bowl became Kelly’s water bowl, and now it’s Mimi’s water bowl.

This is still one of my favorites, hanging in my studio.


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