Out: Hat Mail Art, to Val

Pen-and-colour-pencil drawing.
I heard the cat is happy with the portrait, but I'm in doubt whether Val is - hope he will like it anyway.
In fact, there was an artistical problem to solve: how to draw/paint a white/grey moustache and beard?
I thought this 'mostly white-kept area' would clearly suggest the presence of a beard and moustache, but it might be not as clear as I thought it to be.
So my questions to you, dear colleague mail artists: 1) Do you see a (white) moustache and beard in this drawing? , and if not, 2) How would you draw these in a pen-and-colour-pencil drawing like this?

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 26, 2014 at 4:52am: I don't always look like that...only when I'm thinking about Vizma!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 25, 2014 at 10:44pm: I see Val's aging "white" stubby beard, oh yes!

Excellent illustrative work, Heleen....

and you have never met the real "Trouble"?

That is a perfect representation of the beast :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 22, 2014 at 3:50pm: "Hmm, reminding Herman Melville, I get visions of a whale with a curled tail at the location where usually a moustache can grow... Don't know why."

It's all to do with that dream you had about Val last night, Heleen.

Sigmund.

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on February 22, 2014 at 1:16pm: Thank you for your comment and good advice, Val! I will consider Bianca the next time!

(But did really No-One see that I tried to add Val's beard and moustache to the drawing, by leaving those places white(-haired)?!? :-| )

Hmm, reminding Herman Melville, I get visions of a whale with a curled tail at the location where usually a moustache can grow... Don't know why...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 16, 2014 at 6:34pm: Of course Val likes it! Thank you Heleen.

Trouble likes it too.

Bianca is a jealous puss, 'cos she didn't get included in this.

Bianca is a big, black hairy Persian cat, and, if you try and answer Heleen's 2nd question, perhaps you could 'add' Bianca to where my beard and moustache/snor should be?

Here is Bianca:

Also here is another Herman (Melville) with a beard:

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