Mewsette’s Turn to Supervise
Posted: January 12, 2012 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily photo, mewsette | Tags: black cats, cat looking at computer, cats, pets, photography 4 Comments
Mewsette supervises my post of her image.
Mewsette kept a close eye on my work the other day as I posted this sketch that featured her. I wrote in my post:
Right now, Mewsette is watching me compose this post. I wonder what she’s thinking.
I’m thinking that I can’t see fully half of my monitor.
Then I added:
But one of the things I’ve always liked about painting animals is that they never tell me what I’ve painted doesn’t look like them. I don’t take this to mean they like it, though.
Mewsette studies the sketch.
Not sure where Mewsette’s opinion fell on this sketch; she is universally pleasant, though I don’t think she’d hesitate to tell the truth in order to spare my feelings.
She continued watching with the same relaxed interest. Look closely at the text in the photo.
Mewsette watches me type a line about her.
“Mewsette is watching what I type as I type it.”
Some days I get the feeling they think what I do is pure drivel.
Perhaps I should be just a little afraid.
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Daily Sketch: Sleeping
Posted: January 12, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, mewsette, original artwork | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch, sleeping cat 4 Comments
Sleeping, vine charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
Mewsette curls up for a nap under the kitty keep-warm lights at the desk in my office downstairs.
No more full coverage with the charcoal, just good, heavy lines with lots of variation in shape and opacity to help describe both Mewsette’s outline and dimensional shape.
My cats and I are creatures of habit, but of evolving habits. For days my cats had been crowding under the kitty keep-warm lamps but have been slowly losing interest and only Mewsette remains to act as feline paperweight on my desk. At the same time I have been exploring my piece of vine charcoal with their outlines and shapes, fur and eyes and paws, working with different techniques every day; their shapes and the density of the shadows under the high-intensity lamps inspired this exploration. We work together on these things, but I am feeling we are all ready to move on to new media, and they to a new heat source.
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