Daily Sketch: "Clash of Titans"

sketch of two cats wrestling, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, white charcoal, black and white conté

“Clash of Titans”, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, white charcoal, black and white conté on sanguine Canson Mi-tientes pastel paper, 11″ x 8″ © Bernadette E.Kazmarski

The studio wrestling champions, brothers Giuseppe Basil Verdi and Sir Jelly of Bean, engage in the kitchen but it’s all in fun. It started out when Giuseppe said his brother was a dirty mess and needed to be cleaned up and wavered between a bath and a rock ’em sock ’em boxing tournament, then flat out, literally flat out, wrestling, on the cabinet in the middel of the kitchen.  I had such fun watching them wrestle and did a quick light sketch in vine charcoal then later enhanced it with more vine charcoal to blend their movements.

I outlined it in compressed charcoal and then conté when that wasn’t dark enough, and used both white charcoal and then white conté for the highlights I remembered seeing as they threatened each other and acted fierce with they ears pinned back. I needed a mid-range tone of paper to make both the black and white show up, but my pad of this paper has limited darker colors and I wasn’t fond of most of them for this. Then I decided this sanguine tone worked well with the tones in their fur.

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framed sketch of cats

“Clash of Titans”, pastel and charcoal.

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