Daily Sketch Reprise: Three Black Cats on White, 2015

March 3, 2019 Bernadette

"Three Black Cats on White", 9" x 12", white pastel on black paper © Bernadette E. Kazmarski — “Three Black Cats on White”, 9″ x 12″, white pastel on black paper © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Yesterday, when Mimi gave me the hairy eyeball about drawing her on black paper, I instead used the black paper to draw her children, and this is the sketch. They spent the whole morning tucked together on this one spot on the kitchen floor. What was so special about that spot? It’s right above the furnace. Smart kitties, warm kitties!

Rather than draw the cats on the paper, I decided to draw the floor around the cats, leaving their shapes. An interesting challenge. Pastel is a little dusty and I smeared it here and there, decided not to clean it up with an eraser. The slight ghosting makes it look like an x-ray.

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