Carrying everything
A MershNoir study. A man in a pink jacket stands loaded with weapons — rifles and shotguns slung across the body, pistols in both hands, more strapped to the legs — with a black cat perched on his shoulder smoking a cigarette.
A single upright figure against a solid black field, cropped at the shins. The guns radiate outward from the torso in a fan, which gives the drawing its silhouette, and the cat sits at the top right where the eye finishes.
Coral pink and bone through the jacket and shirt against black, with the gunmetal in grey and blue and the cat's eyes in yellow.
Brushed black laid heavily around a tight ink drawing, so the figure is lit by what has been left unpainted. The weapons are drawn with ruled precision against a loosely painted coat.
Watercolour and ink in a sketchbook.
Not signed; a date in the artist's MMDDYY hand, 091824, is written at the lower right.
Watercolor + ink Sketchbook MershNoir