Daily Sketch: Catamount Brushmore

I mean no disrespect to these four presidents, but when I looked down from my computer screen at the four, this is what I saw. Well, what I saw is above, but really, this was what I immediately visualized—look at the photo below I used for reference!

Not quite the same, but certainly suggestive! I just moved Bean up a bit. I quickly blocked out the shapes and snapped a reference photo, sketched as long as I could until they’d moved too much, then finished from the photo. In case you didn’t “get it”, I added the blue sky, like that was going to help. And I looked at a photo of the actual Mt. Rushmore and added the pine trees at the bottom for authenticity. From the left it’s Bean, Mr. Sunshine, Mewsette and Giuseppe.
Really, what would I do without such unusual inspirations! What they were doing was invading my desk and preparing to occupy, my daily torture of cuteness and interruption. Better get all my papers and stuff off my desk because everything will be buried under the pile. See below for how it turned out. Look at that Bean belly–he’s laying on top of a small box.
So now I actually get to get back to work so I can finish what didn’t get done with my big inspiration.

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Brilliant Bernadette! And no, I didn’t forget the comma after brilliant!!! x
Wow, great sketch and awesome, precious photos=it’s a purrfect post!!…Happy weekend, dear friends…kisses…Calle, Halle, Sukki, Mommy Cat, Daddy Cat
Oh that’s great! We can see how you were inspired to do that.
Island Cats, it was such a flash of inspiration!
I wish I was a cat in your pile of cats………LOL!!
Julie, so do I!
Excellent!
Thanks, Texas!