Daily Sketch: This Way and That
Posted: April 8, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean, mr. sunshine | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat 4 Comments
This Way and That, charcoal pencil © B.E. Kazmarski
Mr. Sunshine is watching the neighborhood out the window, while Jelly Bean is undecided and keeps turning around to look at me. I think he’s afraid he’ll miss something if he doesn’t check both of them.
The boys are really sweet, face to face, hanging out together at the window.
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Daily Sketch: Mimi on My Arm
Posted: April 1, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, mimi | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat 2 Comments
Mimi on My Arm, charcoal pencil © B.E. Kazmarski
Well, not quite on my arm, but she was before I decided to sketch her like this. I’m trying for another unusual angle, though it’s one I see all the time, Mimi on my keyboard shelf resting on my right wrist facing either away from me or toward me, as she is here.
Clever girl watched me sketch her. She didn’t tell me what she thought.
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Daily Sketch: One of Those Positions
Posted: March 23, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, mr. sunshine | Tags: black cat, cat art, cat licking himself, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat 3 Comments
One of Those, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
I was planning on a nice, quiet, peaceful classic charcoal sketch of Mr. Sunshine as a loaf, dozing with nice deep shadows and gentle highlights at the end of the day, ears in nice positions listening to the evening birds outside the window, eyes slowly blinking. Really looking forward to it I even had my sketchbook ready and all the charcoal pencils and sticks I needed all set up. I picked up my pencil to do a light outline…
…and he jumped up and thrust his leg in the air and began licking himself. Now he’s curled and quietly sleeping, looking like a peaceful little angel. But mom gets her revenge. So he gets one of these sketches today.
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Daily Sketch: Contrast Couple
Posted: March 20, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean, mimi | Tags: black cat, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, two cats, two cats in sun Leave a comment
Contrast Couple, charcoal pencil © B.E. Kazmarski
Jelly Bean and Mimi hang out in the sun on the counter by the dining room window.
A nice contrasty sketch since the sun was bright, using a good soft charcoal pencil; not as dusty or smeary as the vine charcoal, but a nice dense black, just right for two black cats with deep shadows.
Mimi and Bean have been hanging out lately, as in the sketch a few days ago, Cats on the Edge. Mimi tends to spend a few days at a time with each of her kids.
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Daily Sketch: Cats on the Edge
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean, mimi | Tags: black cat, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, two cats, two cats sleeping on box 3 Comments
Cats on the Edge, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
Jelly Bean and Mimi curl up on the top of the highest box on the stacks in my office. But they could curl up in the center of it, they don’t have to hang on the edge. Both of them like it that way too—Mimi is always on the corner, even when she’s up there alone.
Yes, the box is as beat-up as it looks, and it’s also listing along with the ones underneath it; I like sketching objects now and then. And they will all be moving to other areas in the house this weekend. The kids will miss these boxes—cats love heights, and while they have two other perching places in this room each of which can fit two of them at a time, one up near the ceiling, these boxes are: 1) new; 2) higher than me, and; 3) right behind me, so they can really look down on me and even jump down onto my shoulder.
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Daily Sketch: Uneasy Truce
Posted: March 11, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cat artwork, cats, daily sketch, kelly, mimi, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, tortoiseshell cat, two cats 2 Comments
Uneasy Truce, charcoal pencil © B.E. Kazmarski
Kelly had been enjoying catnip (again) and bathing by the sunny back door, and Mimi wanted to join her. Kelly was fine with this at first, then Mimi moved a little closer and Kelly got nervous so they essentially traded places.
Of course, no one but me would know who this is or that one of the cats is tortoiseshell Kelly. I didn’t even add her facial detail because her face was entirely in shadow, but even that was difficult to catch as every new view I tried as the cats walked around and I stood in the same position in relation to them their faces were different.
For me, it was a lot of interesting and difficult angles as I tried to capture their placement in the moment, then flesh them out later; I had to do a good bit of study after the fact. Often I take a photo of my subject but I only have two hands and if one is holding the sketchbook and the other is sketching, the moment goes by.
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Daily Sketch: Looking Out the Window
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, mimi | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat 3 Comments
Looking Out the Window, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
Mimi has her tail coiled in its happy curl as she observes the neighborhood activities.
Personally, I don’t see anything, but I am only a frail and helpless human.
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Daily Sketch: Someone is Watching
Posted: March 6, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat 6 Comments
Someone is Watching, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
With six cats in the house I am certain to feel eyes on me most of the time, yet Jelly Bean always gets me when he does this. He is directly behind me on the steps, in a little bit of a shadow, and I need to spin 180 degrees in my chair to really see him.
He’s cute because he’s up to something. Anyone can tell he has a little bit of the devil in him by the slanted, shifty eyes. But it’s not me he’s interested in when I notice there is a bit of subtle feline conversation with at least one of the other cats who is in the room, just a tiny shift in body language and movement of the ears, then suddenly one of them leaps for the stairs and JB is gone! The race is on.
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Daily Sketch: I’m Just the Cutest Thing When I Do This
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, sketch of cat eating 2 Comments
I'm Just the Cutest Thing When I Do This, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
I’m beginning to think JB is playing me. I realize I’ve got more sketches of him than any of the others lately. I think he knows exactly when and how to pose so I’ll sketch him again. Tell me cats don’t know these things.
But he really is cute when he scratches on the scratcher hanging on the doorknob, especially when he looks up at me with those eyes. He had a good scratch, then hung from his claws and looked at me upside down until I noticed him. Yes, I’m sure he knows exactly what he’s doing.
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Daily Sketch: Jelly Bean Breakfast
Posted: January 22, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, sketch of cat eating 2 Comments
Jelly Bean Breakfast, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
There’s just something I love about the way Bean eats. The way he holds his ears, the straight tail that’s just a little bent on the end, just the shape of him is so endearing. He’s the one who claims he’s going to die if he doesn’t eat right now, especially at breakfast, and he purrs loudly into his bowl all the while.
I sketched this first thing, before I even had my coffee and my hands were warmed up, but my eyes were fresh enough that I didn’t have to wear glasses just yet. I don’t keep drawing materials in the kitchen right now because it’s just too chancy with food and art supplies. I’ve been looking at him in the morning and thinking that by the time I ran to get a sketchpad and something to draw with he’d be done, or nearly done. Today I didn’t debate, just ran to get the stuff. He takes his time about eating!
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