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Creek Study in Snow

I call this “my private beach” along Chartiers Creek in Carnegie. You can’t keep me away from water, not even in winter. When the creek is low, this area is above water level, ranging from a few inches to several feet wide, right at a bend in the creek. The opposite bank is a steep […]

March Nature Desktop Calendar: Blue and Yellow

Desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors.

It’s an interesting coincidence that I titled the reference photo I used for this painting “Blue and Yellow” back in 2006. It was all about those two color complements, the warm sunny yellow forsythia and the cool deep blue of the Blue Willow pattern. I remember thinking at that time that the title was another […]

February Nature Desktop Calendar: Creek Study in Snow

A Walk to the Grocery Store

Some of my favorite photos ever, from last year on this day. I dropped my car off for inspection at a station just blocks from my house and took a morning walk from there to the grocery store on that dark and foggy morning. The sun rose and the fog lifted as I walked through […]

Frosted, Fairyland

When I saw the snow that morning, just an inch or two carefully blanketing each branch and twig in the tree outside my window I knew what my destiny would be if the snow stopped and the sun came out. It did, and I headed for the Panhandle Trail, on foot just planning about an […]

Spring Comes to a Bend in the Creek, prints of pastel

"Spring Comes to a Bend in the Creek", 26" x 19", pastel on sanded paper © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

This painting is entitled “Spring Comes to Bend in the Creek”, 26″ x 19″, done in soft pastel on sanded pastel paper. [ss_product id=’77f7f926-eecc-11e5-8148-0cc47a075d76′ ]Landscape, “Spring Comes to a Bend in the Creek”[/ss_product] ABOUT THE ARTWORK I didn’t paint my inspirations of the seasons in any particular order, simply in the order they came to […]

“Colorful”, original framed pastel

"Colorful", 11" x 15", soft pastel , 2015 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

This painting is entitled “Colorful”, 11″ x 15″, done in soft pastel on self-prepared board with marble dust and gesso. [ss_product id=’0d79fc02-e715-11e5-869c-0cc47a075d76′ ]Wildlife, “Colorful”, Original Pastel[/ss_product] ABOUT THE ARTWORK This work was one of my new paintings for the 2015 Wings & Wildlife Art Show at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. “Colorful” is one of […]