This includes all five of the black cats, not all at the same time, of course, I sketched them one by one as they moved around. I was also on the phone while I was sketching, but I was determined to get them in this activity. It was a very
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I was thinking in color today, but when I saw Mr. Sunshine, Mimi, Mewsette and Giuseppe curled up on the unmade bed, I saw the angles and wrinkles of the covers in simple, clear ink lines, and the silhouettes of the black cats against the white. Their shapes had just
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Now that the trees and shrubs outside the windows are leafing out, the morning sun is tempered by green. Giuseppe curled on my desk, early, in all that soft green light. I liked the simple shapes that made up his figure. What was I sketching a year ago today? Well,
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A little number from the nap sequence today, Jelly Bean tucked into Mewsette’s curve, or Mewsette settled around Bean. Either way, they are definitely spooning in the afternoon. The lighting here has so many subtle colors because most of it is reflected off something else—the green of the ivy on
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The colors don’t correspond to anything, I was just visualizing him this way while I watched him bathe. I did the simple charcoal sketch first, thinking I might just stop at that, but kept seeing the greens and blues and that yellow in this kind of rubbed-in style where the
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Bean stands just a bit on his hind legs and prepares to attack the wicked toy! These action shots have been quite the challenge but very fun. I study them while they play—oh, poor me, I have to watch my cats play—and look for what makes the action look complete.
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It was just too hot to do a sketch today—sweaty palms leave marks on paper that turn yellow soon enough, and besides my models weren’t doing anything at all interesting. In fact, they looked pretty much like this today, and this watercolor sketch from June 9 is my latest favorite
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Back to good old drawing pencil, my first and favorite medium. Not that they’d all keep still while I sketched them, instead I wanted to catch their energy, not sure how many or how detailed I’d get I let the sketch build itself and drew them one by one as
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Mimi enjoys her daily sunbath while Mewsette watches the birds from my studio window on the second floor. One more experiment with this brush pen, partly just because it was there. I love it when the cats are partly lit by sunshine, and dramatically. Here it pours in the window
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Well, the title should be self-explanatory, it is indeed Mimi, who occupied my drafting table all day, and she is en silhouette—or nearly so. As she enjoyed a bit of sun on the windowsill I enjoyed the play of angled light on her fur. And I’m really loving this new
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