Tag Archives: snow

Avoiding the Photographer But Caught By the Artist

The girls—two does from the small herd that lives in our back yards—were hiding behind my scruffy little hemlock while I was hovering around in the snow in the back yard trying to get their photo on a snowy, sunny morning the previous February. It’s a watercolor, 12″ x 18″, from 2022 that had been […]

Frosty Morning, Just Before Sunrise, View From My Window

Frosty Morning, Just Before Dawn, pastel, 17.5 x 9, 2012 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

It looks like this out there these January mornings. The coldest, frostiest mornings always seem to come in January, right after all the warmth and color of the holiday season. I painted this in January 2012, standing at my bathroom window overlooking the back yard, the streets below me down to Main Street, and the […]

Walking the Tracks

Even when there’s snow, there’s still a lot of color in the landscape. I regularly walked railroad tracks for my Sunday hike, a day when few if any trains ran. They’re not too different from other established trails and are kept clear, and the views are interesting, going past the backs of everything, and even […]

Night Window

This is my neighbor’s house and a scene I see from my kitchen window. Years ago, every night the light was on in this window and the beacon felt so familiar that it was like a part of my own home. They told me it was their living room so the light would always be […]

New Painting: Winter Garden

"Winter Garden," acrylic, 5" x 7", 2026 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

What my garden looks like right now. I painted this in acrylic on a little canvas-wrapped primed paint panel and used only two colors: white and burnt umber. That’s the color of things out there. I’ve been planning this little thing since the last snowfall, just a little loose painting. I’ve been trying to encourage […]

Light Woods

This little sketch has a story. I planned and worked for the decade of the 90s to be self-employed and work at home. My goal in this wasn’t just to be my own boss, in fact that wasn’t even part of my consideration. I worked as a graphic designer but as a creative person I […]

Curving Tracks in the Snow

Curving Tracks, Charcoal, 6.25 x 9.5 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

We’ve had some good snows for so early in the season but trains can easily navigate leaving graceful curves in the snow. The landscape is changed to nearly black and white, clear contrasts and every little branch with its tiny frosting of snow. I walk these tracks sometimes. The graceful curve of the tracks in […]

Jays are Jammin’ the Blues

"Jammin Jay Blues", pastel, 6 x 6 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

When a bunch of blue jays get together, you know it. This one particular section of the mulberry tree in my backyard is a favorite place for jam sessions. I saw this group in the bare branches, noising it out like a random atonal brass quintet, and went to get my pastels and paper to […]

Avoiding the Photographer, Not So Cleverly Hidden

I welcomed 2022 with a new painting, “Avoiding the Photographer”. The girls—two does from the small herd that lives in our back yards—were hiding behind my scruffy little hemlock while I was hovering around in the snow in the back yard trying to get their photo on a snowy, sunny morning the previous February. It’s […]

Curving Tracks Etched in the Snow

We have just enough snow that the landscape is changed to nearly black and white, clear contrasts and every little branch with its tiny frosting of snow. Driving errands today I loved the look and remembered this sketch. The graceful curve of the tracks in any season, because I admire it all the time, is […]