Monday, March 18, 2024
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Daily Sketch: Dinnertime!

pencil sketch of three cats eating
“Dinnertime!”, pencil, 8″ x 5″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

 

It’s Kelly, Mimi and Cookie enjoying dinner. No time for a sketch this morning, the usual time for sketches as warm-ups, but I knew I’d be gone all day, hoping I could get one later.

I knew I wanted to get this one, but also knew I’d have a limited time since they get their bowls before the young animals do and the three girls don’t waste any time once they get to it. I had my sketchbook and pencil on the sink and as soon as I set down the bowls for the kids I got right to the sketch.

This sketch is available for sale in my Etsy shop. Why this one and a few others, but not all of them? See below.

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Click here to see other daily sketches, and for a gallery of the ones available for sale, visit my Etsy shop in the “Daily Sketches” section. I don’t want to list every single one so I have to decide by my own arbitrary and subjective method if I think someone somewhere would like to buy this sketch. Some of them just look like sketches other people would like to have in their home, so those are the ones I post for sale. If you don’t see one on Etsy you’d like, send me an e-mail—it might have been sold, or I might just have just thought it wouldn’t be as appealing as another.

All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in purchasing one as a print, or to use in a print or internet publication.

Bernadette

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  • Heather

    Your sketches really remind me of the illustrator/author Clare Turlay Newberry. Are you familiar with her? I LOVE her stuff. I actively am collecting her books. Many are hard to find now. Love your blog and your cats are all gorgeous/handsome!

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    • Oh my goodness, WHAT A COMPLIMENT!! I could only hope to keep working and achieve her level some day, but thank you so much, Heather–and also for collecting her work!

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    • Heather

      I found a copy of her book Marshmallow at a used book store and fell in love. I had to find the rest. 🙂 I even was able to track down a copy of Pandora on Ebay that wasn’t out of my price range. They are very beautiful. You both do such a great job of catching cats the way they truly are in real life. 🙂 I think one of my favorites of her books is the one called Widget. Have you seen it?

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    • Heather, a friend of mine bought them for her daughters years ago and they have decided to keep them at her house so they can both enjoy them still, so I have seen them. Oddly enough, I had not seen any of them until about a decade ago and I don’t know how I missed her work all these years! I’ve been away from my daily sketches for a while, but this is one of the reasons I’m adamant about doing one nearly every day so that I can get back to building my style. Thanks again!

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  • I love the curve of the neck and head of the kitty on the right – is that Cookie?

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    • Christine, yes, that’s Cookie! You can see her dish is already nearly empty–she hangs off the edge of the counter and I have to set her dish next to her, and she never gets into a comfortable position just gets her face in the bowl and eats. She’s always been serious about food, and at 19 I don’t complain about any way she wants to eat!

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