Category Archives: nature artwork

Organize With Nature, “Found Along the Panhandle Trail” Series Cube Keepsake Boxes

Three from the set of "Found Along the Panhandle Trail" keepsake boxes.

Are you sorting photos or correspondence, even bills? Clean up 2018 and start 2019. Colorful boxes inspired by flowers, butterflies and scenes of the Panhandle Trail will make the job easier and be prettier to look at than an old shoe box. This set of cube-shaped papier-mâché boxes ranges in size from 9″ x 9″ […]

Original Painting Sold: Summer Sunset, Robinson Run

Summer Sunset, Robinson Run, 12 x 18, pastel © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I’m thrilled that this painting is now in a home that will love it as much as I do. This family had purchased another original as well as a couple of portraits from me—and adopted one of my rescued cats, so we have a friendship as well. We also share a love of trails and […]

Open Water – Today

I found open water and lots of color even though it’s still just early March. Sometimes I need to awaken my creative senses with a taste of the natural world. Often these aren’t planned excursions but extemporaneous visits to places I know well while I’m running errands. I return with more than I’d set out […]

A Peaceful, Quiet Sunset Cruise

Sunset Cruise, pastel on black pastel paper, 9 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I took the reference photo for this in 2005. It waited 12 years to be painted. It was indeed a sunset cruise…down Chartiers Creek on a perfect July evening. Not only the delicate light on the nearly still water and the clear sky gradating up to deep blue, but the curve of the hills on […]

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"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 […]

Cool Off in a Summer Sunset

Imagine a summer afternoon so hot you had to soak yourself in the shallow stream in the woods to cool down after your day on the trail, cool water flowing around you, holding your place in the current, and watching the sun drop toward the horizon through the trees. What a great way to spend […]

A Coral Sunset in February

Coral Sunset, 8 x 12, pastel © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

One February afternoon I caught a surprise winter sunset and shared photos in “I Chased A Sunset”. …and it disappeared over the edge and took a piece of my soul with it. Really, on the way home from a quick errand to a shopping center I encountered a stunning winter sunset just beginning to color […]

Dreaming of an April Afternoon, April Cloud Study

April Cloud Study, pastel, 9 x 9, 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Once the weather turns warm and sunny the world begins coloring up nicely, and so it did one April afternoon. I decided to take some time to paint the clouds, literally and figuratively, standing out in my back yard with my pastel for about ten minutes—and by that time the skies were completely different. This […]

Colorful in Winter

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

Even if you live in the city you’ll find wildlife everywhere. “Colorful” is one of my favorite duck images on Chartiers Creek from my walks to Main Street. I took the photo several years ago of the mallard balancing on one leg with morning sun reflecting brightly off off an orange brick building on the […]

Familiar Winter Scene

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

The graceful curve of the railroad tracks in any season, because I admire it all the time, is an inspiration to create. In the starkness of the snowy day, the minimized palette honestly black and white even in a photo, the trees rising straight up all around, marching up the steep hill toward the sky […]