Featured Daily Sketch: Quiet Morning or “Sunfall,” July 3, 2014

July 9, 2026 Bernadette

pastel sketch of two black cats — “Sunfall”, pastel on yellow textured paper, 5″ x 7″, 2014 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

From 2014: When I created this little sketch I called it “Sunfall”, yet when I first posted it I called it “Quiet Morning”. I like both titles, but I think I’m going to go with “Sunfall” from now on! Looks like it might be a nice card too!

The weather has cooled a bit and Mr. Sunshine and Jelly Bean sat quietly on the landing in the late morning as the sun came in the window and fell on them, as you see. The landing is so small and the ceilings are high, the window is a tall narrow casement and the sun comes in at an angle to cast on the round antique mirror making the light very interesting. Because of the trees outside and the objects inside the light on the landing takes on an interesting yellow-green cast with tints from the pine wardrobe, transitioning to bluish shadows near the floor. I used a piece of yellow drawing paper rather than white to tint everything yellow no matter as it was in life. Of course, the felines are in silhouette in light like that.

I’m still working out a style I’d visualized in the spring of non-representation background with simple cat figures or silhouettes. Here is also “Peaceful Nap”, “The Daily Chase”, and in watercolor, “Cuddling on a Colored Ground“.

From 2026: For all the changes over the years the light is still like that on the landing. I can picture it in each era, and I can still see Mr. Sunshine, facing left, and Jelly Bean, the smaller one, sitting there in life, two brothers sharing the space.

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I’m going to follow through with those note cards—with the other three similar sketches that makes a set of four.

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