The Colonel
2024-10
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The Colonel
Mersh down on one knee with a pistol in each hand while armed cats fight alongside him — one firing a rifle over his shoulder, one with a carbine and a cigarette — and a heavy-set cat in a bowler hat and overcoat fills the right foreground. The bowler-hatted cat is the Colonel.
A wedge of figures driving in from the left, with the Colonel cropped huge at the right edge as a dark mass that stops the eye and turns the group back into the sheet. Muzzle flash and smoke fill the black ground behind.
Black ink on white. No colour.
Figures left as open white line against flat brushed black behind, so the whole fight reads as silhouette against night. The Colonel's fur is the one passage worked in fine detail, which is what makes him the subject rather than the action.
Ink on paper.
Signed rayrayisHAPPY with the date 102424 at the lower centre.
The colonel