Category Archives: flowers

2026 Vendor Events, June through October

My display from the Spaghetti Dinner in May.

It’s going to be a busy summer! The photo above is from the HCMT Spaghetti Dinner in May this year, but it has a lot of the things I’ll have all summer. And of course it will be in my tent for most of these 2026 events! I rearranged my display at the beginning of […]

Evening Wildflowers

On a sweltering, sticky August evening I discovered an incredibly beautiful patch of native wildflowers intentionally seeded at Scott Conservancy Kane Woods. I forgot about sweaty hands and the pulse of the sun directly in my face because it was also touching each and every flower on that hillside, filling leaves and petals with brilliance. […]

Red Climbers, Ready for Summer

Red Climbers, watercolor, 6.5" x 14.5" , 1998, Bernadette E. Kazmarski

The photo reminded me of my mother’s climbing red roses which grew up a trellis on the side of the house and now grow on a trellis on the side of my house. These roses have always fascinated me, they just keep going–up the fence, over the fence, down the other side. As a watercolor […]

First Carnegie Farmers Market a Wrap

Carnegie Farmers Market tent display, right.

Well, the first Carnegie Farmers Market of the season is a wrap–a very hot wrap at 94 degrees on Main Street in full sun on the pavement! Thank goodness my tent canopy has a “silver lining” that reflects a lot of the heat so the shade is actually cooler. The 5-10mph breeze was very welcome […]

July 6 Starts Farmers Market Time! Main Street Carnegie, Sunday Noon to 3

Starting Sunday, July 6 through the end of September, join us for the Carnegie Farmers Market on Main Street from noon to 3:00 p.m.! I can’t wait to get back! Carnegie Farmers Market Sundays July 6 through September 21 No market Labor Day Weekend I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select […]

Greenhouse Gerberas Full of Color

I took the reference photo for this painting at a local greenhouse in 2013. I’ve always liked colorful gerbera daisies and their bold smiling faces. I’ve used it for a few graphic designs and decided someday I’d paint it too. So that time was in 2019. I chose oil pastel because I’ve come to enjoy […]

My Mother’s Columbines

Columbines, Watercolor, 5 x 7, 1994 © Bernadete E. Kazmarski

My mother grew columbines in the back yard when I was growing up. They started with just a few colors but eventually the pinks and violets mixed and interbred with the native indigo and red/yellow. The variety was overwhelming to my young eyes, young enough that some of the columbines bloomed taller than me. Of […]

Greenhouse Gerberas for Summer Color

Summer Joy: Geraniums and Parsley

Geraniums and Parsley, watercolor, 6 x 9 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

An artist in one of the groups I post in said she could feel the “absolute joy” in this painting. Yes, the exuberance of nature on a beautiful summer day, and my joy at even just a little bit of life and color to be inspired by in the year I didn’t have a garden. […]

A Small Still Life, Small Roses

Small Roses, pastel, 10" x 6", 2001 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Just one little sliver of sunlight crept through the blind and that was all it took to illuminate these old roses in a tiny glass vase. I stood in my kitchen and sketched this as quickly as possible before the light changed. These are roses that I grow, an unbelievably bright pink pasture rose and […]