The City, Cat Crossing the Street

This drawing is about a cat that is crossing the street at an intersection. Actually he appears to be stopped and just standing there undecided what to do, or where to go, like cats often do. That is what I think it is about. Someone else might say it is about the man in the second story window on the left that is reading the stock report in the paper. Someone else might say it is about the woman with a child on the right, getting ready to cross the road.

If you do a drawing of an entire city, then the drawing is about the city. If you insert the image of one person into the drawing of the city, then the drawing is about that person and the city becomes the backdrop. And if you draw a city, with figures in it, and then you put in a cat, then the drawing is about the cat. That’s what I think, and I’m sure that the cat agrees!

This drawing measures 11” x 7.5”. It was created using maroon crayon pencil , on a heavy cold press watercolor paper. The paper in this drawing was painted yellow before the drawing was started, and after the paint was dry the surface had a lot of paint chips pressed into it with a heavy roller. This can’t be seen in the scan and is hard to explain with words, but the paper of this drawing has a complex embossed surface while can only be seen close up, this texture gives the drawn line a nice lively unpredictability. It is signed on the lower right, witha B.