Category Archives: giclee print

It’s a Rainy Night on Main Street

“Rainy Night on Main Street”, acrylic, 24″ x 12″, 2007 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

About “Rainy Night on Main Street” I pulled up to a stop sign and saw this view of Main Street at night in the rain. I took a photo with my ever-present digital camera (and actually have it in my gallery “At Night in the Rain” ) but at the time a friend had also […]

Birches 1, Autumn Showers

From the time I met the paper birch in our front yard I have always been fascinated by the delicately detailed white bark of birch trees etched with deep contrast gray and black seams and splits. The trunks seemed to emit their own faint light in any season. Here, in the darkness of the woods, […]

Captivating Sycamore Moon

"Sycamore Moon", pastel, 14" x 20" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Today’s full moon is the last full moon of winter, when she sits like a pearl strung in a mesh of bare branches. This is most often called the Worm Moon, but I had always known it as the Sap Moon or the Sugar Moon because the sugar begins to flow in sugar maple trees […]

Birches 2, Radiance, ink with watercolor washes

Birches 2: Radiance, watercolor, 22 x 23, edges cropped.

I remember, after I’d spent two weeks on the ink drawing that is the basis of this work, holding a wet brush full of yellow watercolor, not sure it was the right thing to do, and absolutely sure I’d screw it up if painted it in. I’m so glad I took the chance. We have […]

My Neighbor’s Laundry, A Summer Thing

"My Neighbor's Laundry", acrylic on board, 6 x 12, 2005 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I do have a thing for laundry. This is one of several paintings featuring or including laundry. This could be anywhere, but Carnegie really is a place where people still use their backyards to hang laundry, including me. And it really is my neighbor’s laundry in the back yard on a lovely summer morning. I […]

Birches 2, Radiance, ink and watercolor

A Dozen Shades of Gray Anniversary, Art and Cats Transcend Language

"A Dozen Shades of Gray", gray pastels, 4" x 8" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

June 5 is the fifth anniversary of creating this simple little monochromatic pastel sketch of Jelly Bean enjoying the view out the window with lots of different kinds of light on his fur. It’s still surprising to me that this has always been one of the most popular of all my daily sketches. At the […]

Fifth Anniversary of Two Cats After van Gogh

"Two Cats After van Gogh", oil pastel, 6" x 5" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

It’s the fifth anniversary of this piece of artwork. It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I saw the exhibit “Van Gogh Up Close” and came home with a head full of ideas—and that evening sketched Giuseppe and Mr. Sunshine on the landing for my first “Cats After van Gogh” sketch, a theme […]

Captivating Sycamore Moon

Two large sycamore trees stand near the entrance of the Panhandle Trail, but because they grow against a hill I don’t see them from this angle against the sky until I am headed back home, nearly at the trailhead, and often at dusk, especially the early dusk of a winter night. Because the light changes […]

It’s a Rainy Night on Main Street

I pulled up to a stop sign and saw this view of Main Street at night in the rain. I took a photo with my ever-present digital camera (and actually have it in my gallery “At Night in the Rain” ) but at the time a friend had also given me boxes of leftover art […]