Featured Daily Sketch: Kitty’s Sleeping, 2012

March 26, 2026 Bernadette

conte sketch of cat sleeping — “Kitty’s Sleeping”, sanguine and red earth conté 5″ x 5″, 3/21/2012 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

From 2012: Kelly is beginning to drip off the edge of the book case she’s chosen as her current daily sleeping spot. I’m not sure why she chooses an exposed and uncomfortable spot like this—at least, that’s my perception. Still, clinging to the corner of a tall cabinet can’t be relaxing, yet she falls asleep and I find all sorts of limbs hanging down.

In this case, she is curled and relaxed and falling apart just a little.

“Kitty’s sleeping” is something we said to children to help keep them quiet.

From 2026: As I’ve said with other sketches of Kelly, I’m so glad I captured her along with all the housepanthers in these first months of my daily sketches. We had just lost Cookie a month before and Kelly was feeling lost. I paid her as much attention as she would take and Mimi and the siblings were gentle with her. She was sleeping in some odd spaces but that may have been because she had most often napped with Cookie, or at least been near her, but here she was out in the open. And right in reach of my hand when I wanted to reach out and pet her.

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