Around Midnight, 20" x 20 1/2"
This is a drawing that I did for my wife nearly 20 years ago. It was actually based on a thumbnail sketch of a cat I did while developing a logo design. It didn't end up as part of a logo, but I liked the stylized, yet realistic quality of the cat outline intersecting with the defining box. At the time, she had an all black cat named Midnight, which led me to envision a drawing using a black background for the negative space and cat, then filling the interior with a somewhat fanciful "stained glass" interpretation of a landscape setting. I used a metallic gold Prismacolor to delineate the colors and enhance that quality.
Integrating a colored background to become part of the imagery, has become an ongoing approach in my colored pencil drawings ever since, such as in the drawing in my previous post. Though the styles I've employed within the context of that technique have varied considerably, I've found it to be interesting and successful.
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