Coral Sunset, Pastel

Coral Sunset, Pastel, 8″ x 12″, 2017. The original is sold but digital, giclee and canvas prints are available.



ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Coral Sunset, 8 x 12, pastel © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Last February I caught a surprise winter sunset and shared photos in “I Chased A Sunset”.

…and it disappeared over the edge
and took a piece of my soul with it.

Really, on the way home from a quick errand to a shopping center I encountered a stunning winter sunset just beginning to color and decided to take a detour through a local park to see it in progress. All I had was my smartphone which doesn’t handle colors and contrasts at all well, but decided I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. The sunset had me racing over acres of the park which is on a ridge over a valley, just the perfect setting to watch the sun drop below the far horizon with both trees as a foreground, and then nothing but sky.

I love the images as photos in all their native color and intricacy, but I’ve also wanted to paint a few. I didn’t want to create a masterpiece right now this minute and decided on a simple theme. I used my basic box of pastel pieces, the one I take out in the field for quick sketches so if they all get dumped in a creek it’s kind of okay, in part because I wanted that authentic feel of using a limited palette. Also last year I purchased a number of pastel grounds when I couldn’t purchase my regular pastel paper and painted them on 8″ x 11″ Richeson hardboard panels, which had been the wrong size for a project but perfect for this. The ground for this panel was Golden Fine Pumice in a clear gel, and it seems two coats of the stuff is a good base for the mix of pastels I have in this box—from the softest melt-in-your-fingers to hard Nupastels.

This simple composition, land, sky, bare tree, was made challenging by all the color not only in the sky but in the shadowed ground, and the tiny lights of the world preparing for night.

SHIPPING AND CHARGES

Shipping within the US is included in the cost of each print.

Prints up to 16″ x 20″ are shipped flat in a rigid envelope. Larger prints are shipped rolled in a mailing tube unless otherwise requested; flat shipping is an extra cost because it’s oversized.

GICLEE PRINTS

The giclees are printed on acid-free hot press art paper for a smooth matte finish using archival inks. Giclee is the highest quality print available because the technique uses a dozen or more ink ports to capture all the nuances of the original painting, including details of the texture, far more sensitive than any other printing medium. Sometimes my giclees look so much like my originals that even I have a difficult time telling them apart when they are in frames.

I don’t keep giclee prints in stock for most of my works. Usually I have giclees printed as they are ordered unless I have an exhibit where I’ll be selling a particular print so there is a wait of up to two weeks before receipt of your print to allow for time to print and ship.

I offer giclees of this painting in two different sizes: the full size of 31″ x 23″, a half-size of 16″ x 12.5″. The giclees have 2″ of white around the outside edges. All are countersigned by me.

DIGITAL PRINTS

Digital prints are made on acid-free matte-finish natural white 100# cover using archival digital inks. While digital prints are not the quality of a giclee in capturing every nuance and detail of color, texture and shading, I am still very pleased with the outcome and usually only I as the artist, could tell where detail and color were not as sharp as the original. Digital prints are only available up to 11″ x 17″ and some of the prints are cropped to fit standard mat and frame sizes.

Digital prints have at least 1/2″ around the edges depending on the size of the print. All are countersigned by me.

CANVAS PRINTS

Because the standard size canvas prints are not proportional to the original painting, canvas prints of this painting will have a portion cropped off.

I usually have at least one of the smaller sizes of canvases on hand, but order larger ones as they are ordered because I have limited storage space. Smaller canvases are a 3/4″ in depth, Canvases 12 x 16 and larger are 1-1/2″ in depth. I set them up so the image runs from edge to edge, then the sides are black or white or sometimes I slip in a color that coordinates with the painting. This canvas mirrors the edges of the image around the sides.

FRAMED PRINTS

I do all my own framing and can custom frame a print for you. Please ask.

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