Hat With Wildflowers, pastel, 5.5" x 8.5", 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

My Sketching Hat With Wildflowers, Spring Art on Sale

Hat With Wildflowers, pastel, 5.5" x 8.5", 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Hat With Wildflowers, pastel, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Hat With Wildflowers, pastel, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Kind of sweet and sentimental and actually the last sketch I did on my roundabout trip to the grocery store with pastels and camera. When I came home and parked my bike to unpack it, I untied the bunch of wildflowers I’d gathered and my sketching hat from the back of my bike and set them on my porch swing, then removed the bungees holding my bags of groceries underneath where they had been. I put everything in the house and came back out to get my hat and put the flowers in the vases on my porch and yard, and immediately felt another sketch coming on.

The wildflowers are some of my favorite colors at this time of the year for their brilliance. The longish stems of tiny yellow flowers on the right are yellow sweet clover, and its scent is intoxicating, that legendary scent of clover that grow in bunches just about anywhere. The yellow green bunches behind them are wild parsnip, an easily adaptable plant that can grow from two to six feet tall and kind of looks like a really big parsley plant with panicles of tiny yellow-green flowers; think of a large yellow Queen Anne’s Lace, though that comes later. The pink flowers are crown vetch, related to wild sweet peas that’s planted on hillsides and roadsides to hold soil in place and control the growth of other plants. The burgundy is a grass with lovely graceful burgundy seed heads that I just can’t identify!

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The sketch is done in pastels on sanded pastel paper. The mats are 2.5″, deep blue under mat and medium blue top mat. Frame is 10″ x 13″, walnut with blue washes I added to coordinate with the blues in the painting and the mats.

And until the summer solstice this year, June 21, 2018, use the coupon code SPRINGINTOSUMMER25 in your shopping cart for a 25% discount. Price includes the frame and shipping.

Select Spring Originals on Sale Through the Summer Solstice

Each season when I publish my Nature & Wildlife newsletter I extend a 25% discount on all original art that features the season. For the first two months of the season the discount is only available to list members, but for last month of each season I extend the offer to everyone.

This month, of course, features spring artwork, paintings of spring scenes and subjects.

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