Daily Sketch: Giuseppe From the Back

Posted: December 13, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, giuseppe | Tags: , , , , | 5 Comments
sketch of black cat from the back

Giuseppe from the back, charcoal pencil © B.E. Kazmarski

Quite the landscape, Giuseppe, when he crouches with his hips and elbows in the air. It’s a posture I’m sure everyone who lives with a cat finds familiar.

I initially intended to sketch him facing completely away from me, but he turned his head and I liked his profile, that long  sloping forehead and regal nose.

I’m still working in charcoal because I’ve been wanting to move to more than just the outlines of each of the cats in action. These are black cats, after all, and it’s their very darkness that I find visually appealing, the contrasts with their eyes and they way their shape is often isolated against a lighter background. This means filling in their shapes somehow, so for Giuseppe I followed the flow of his fur and used the actual shadowed areas as the darkest areas. I wasn’t sure what to do with his face, so I left part of it untouched. Forgot his eyebrows, though; can’t forget Giuseppe’s eyebrows.

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Black Cat Abstract

Posted: December 13, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily photo, fantastic four | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment
four black cats

Black Cat Abstract

This is what happens when cool reflected winter light meets indoor light from the ceiling fixture, something I could never plan because it depends on the quality of light and even the time of day, and, of course, all that shiny black fur. It hardly looks that way in the viewfinder, it all just depends on how the color sensor records it.

From the top, Jelly Bean is cleaning his white spot, Mewsette is curled facing him, Guiseppe is curled on the left and upside down and Mr. Sunshine is using him as a pillow.

A nice little psychedelic sensation in the middle of the afternoon.

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