Friday, March 29, 2024
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Daily Sketch Reprise: The Twist, 2014

conte crayon sketch of cat bathing
“The Twist”, conté on Canson mi-tientes, 9″ x 12″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Mewsette twists this way and that in the fervor of her bath. She knows she is modeling.

Something interesting I’ve noticed about my sketches—they have grown larger over time. I started out with tiny sketches, some only 2″ x 4″, on 8″ x 10″ paper, now I fill up all of a 9″ x 12″. That means my hand is warmed up and ready to flow over the paper. While my daily sketches have influenced my painting and sketching style and technique, now it’s time for my painting and sketching technique for commissions to influence my daily sketches. I notice I rarely sketch out a commissioned subject, preferring instead to just start drawing on the paper as if I’m painting en plein air. It’s an interesting turn of events.


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sketch of two cats wrestling, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, white charcoal, black and white conté
“Clash of Titans”, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, white charcoal, black and white conté, 11″ x 8″ © Bernadette E.Kazmarski

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 middle 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. Find it on Portraits of Animals.



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