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Daily Sketch Reprise: Sun Puzzle, 2012

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“Sun Puzzle”, charcoal pencil, 9″ x 6″ © B.E. Kazmarski

Sun came streaming in the back door this morning creating brilliant white highlights on very densely black cats. Mimi, Giuseppe and Mewsette looked like interlocking puzzle pieces.

Just keep looking, it will come together.


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“Giuseppe Resting”, black and white charcoal on tan toned paper, 5.5″ x 8.5″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

So Giuseppe rests all the time, why draw him now? Just because he looked so velvety black there on my desk, completely covering up something I needed to work on. You can see a few extra lines I’d erased at the bottom; he had started out with one paw curled under and his head up. I no sooner had that roughly outlined than he laid his head on his paw.

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From health and welfare to rescue and adoption stories, advocacy and art, factual articles and fictional stories, "The Creative Cat" offers both visual and verbal education and entertainment about cats for people who love cats, pets and animals of all species.

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