Featured Daily Sketch: Energetic Bath, 2014

March 20, 2026 Bernadette

"Energetic Bath", Nupastel, conté, charcoal pencil, 8" x 11" © B.E. Kazmarski — “Energetic Bath”, Nupastel, conté, charcoal pencil on Pastello paper in gray-green, 8″ x 11″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

From 2014: So much light in all different colors! I began this in conté in four basic colors, black, white, sanguine and red earth because Bean is very mahogany in both the warm light from inside and the cool light from the window, those colors are work just fine. But then I started to see blues and greens in the background and yellow on the pine wardrobe and then I saw purple and blue and green in Bean, and then I couldn’t unsee them. As usual, my model was not only washing another area of his body but long gone from his energetic bath to another activity before I was done adding highlights and lowlights.

From 2016: Well, you can’t have a collection of daily cat sketches without one of these because you know they lift that leg and lick at any moment. Bean was even cute when he did this.

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