Featured Daily Sketch: Three in a Bed, 2013

April 9, 2026 Bernadette

pastel sketch of three cats in a bed — “Three in a Bed”, pastel pencil, 6.5″ x 8″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

From 2013: Mr. Sunshine, Giuseppe and Mewsette were piled in their new bed by the window all afternoon in a variety of comfortable poses just as they did when they were kittens. Yes, it was just as hard to tell them apart when I was drawing them as they appear here!

This is drawn in pastel pencil, the three colors I seem to like best for them—black, teal and red earth. Of course we know they are black and the shadows really are a dense black, but they each have a varying amount of mahogany in their fur, especially in natural daylight, and at this window their highlights look bluish. Someday I’ll have to gather together all the sketches I’ve done in this color combination.

From 2026: I remember this cat bed and how they acted when we got it. It was really just a one-cat bed but they were never able to sleep alone. It’s difficult to piece them out here and as I mentioned that was intentional because that’s what they looked like. What was really fun was the random paw sticking up in the air.

And also as I’d mentioned in yesterday’s Featured Artwork post about my trends in colors all through my daily sketches, and for some reason these three really colors were a thing and ironic that this donated cat bed was actually the “correct” colors! But also, “Someday I’ll have to gather together all the sketches I’ve done in this color combination.” Also from yesterday’s Featured Artwork post because this is one of the color combinations I’m grouping together.

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