Category Archives: pastel

Nature & Wildlife Framed Original Artwork 25% Off

I always like to share my quarterly Nature & Wildlife newsletters after subscribers have had a chance to see it and all the offers have expired. This is my winter 2022-2023 Newsletter, and the main special is framed original artwork. Photographing and displaying my framed original artwork Unless you join me at an exhibit or […]

Commissioned Portrait: Coco

Coco’s family was local, and he was loved by the whole family. He wasn’t feeling well and knew his time was limited. Coco was owned by the mom and the brother and sister went together to commission this portrait for her. Read more about Coco’s portrait on The Creative Cat : Commissioned Portrait: Coco

Walk in the Woods, Especially in Autumn

“Walk in the Woods”—that’s not just an idea, that’s an imperative! Take the time, go and do it! I’m so glad I did. Time was running out for the amazing leaf color in October 2022, and I’d really wanted to take some time more than once when the leaves were at their prime to at […]

“Winter Sunset Abstract,” Custom Commissioned Painting

Winter Sunset Abstract framed and on the wall.

Another customer sent me a photo of her custom commissioned painting on the wall in her house, and this is one I haven’t shared here before. Winter Sunset Abstract is a pastel on matboard, which I use sometimes for larger paintings. This painting is 24″ x 32″, and with an ice blue mat it’s 32″ […]

25% Off Select Original Feline Artwork

Six original feline artwork paintings and five block prints are discounted 25% with discount code ORIGINALART25 through February 28, 2023. Why spend extra money on an original when a print looks nice enough? Looking at the original artwork that was done by hand is very different from looking at a print. I’m careful with preparing […]

February Nature Desktop Calendar: Winter Sunset, After Rothko

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

It’s actually the sunset reflected on the eastern horizon, but I guess it could be the western sky as well. It’s from memory, not from life or from a photo, but it’s something I visualized when I’d looked at the horizon at sunset out my back window, a clear cold cloudless sky and deep shadow […]

Commissioned Portrait: Fanny

Here’s a portrait I finished at the beginning of December. Fanny’s person received a portrait gift certificate for Mothers Day so she could get a portrait of her sweet Fanny, a little Bombay kitty. I had several photos of Fanny to work with and some very active and cute poses, like sitting up on her […]

“Woods Reader” Includes My Paintings, Essays and Other Interesting Content

In 2018 I submitted for publication a few of my paintings and their stories to nature-themed magazines and websites. Woods Reader responded with interest and in 2019 they published “The Rope Swing”. In 2014 when I imagined organizing an exhibit of landscapes I’d on sketched and painted on, and of, the Panhandle Trail, this image […]

Stark Winter Sun on a “Dead End” Street

Dead End, pastel on prepared board, 8 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I love snowy winter scenes, blue morning shadows or brilliant sunsets, snowfall, surprise bits of color. Winter has long been my biggest inspiration for landscape painting. And I also love a row of houses in the sun without snow, the bare trees, the long shadows, and this dead end street has so many familiar elements. […]

Summer and Winter in Exhibit Submissions

It’s the first art call of 2023: I dropped off submissions at the North Hills Art Center for an exhibit at Northland Library. It’s not a juried show, just artwork that will hang in the library and is for sale. Exhibits usually have a three-year limit for submissions, meaning works you’ve created within the past […]