Category Archives: prints of artwork

Wandering in the Snow

So was the trail wandering in the snow or was I? Or both of us, me following the trail’s example, though I did step off the trail plenty of times. Today the temperature hit 50 degrees, and the thermometer on my deck actually read 60 degrees for a while, though I could tell when I […]

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 […]

After the Snow Squall

I round this bend frequently and it’s still a preferred route even if it takes a few more minutes to get where I’m going. I still remember when it was the remnants of a Christmas tree farm—see the snow-covered evergreens on the left—and the barn was used as a barn. After a snow squall passed […]

“Safe” in Our Back Yards

"Safe", pastel, 15" x 20", 2015 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Time was the deer wandered in and out of my back yard after a few neighbor trees and one of my own fell on my fences. I got probably hundreds of photos of the deer in my back yard in those years, and a couple of paintings, like this one. It was years before I […]

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 […]

October Sunset After a Storm: How Small Beneath the Sky

The many-faceted history of “How Small Beneath the Sky” I don’t know what it was about this image as a photograph in 2011 that stayed with me from the time I took it. It’s that sense of my tiny self, smaller than one of those dots in the valley below, one of which on the […]

Deserted Cottages, Lake Erie, and a Childhood Friend

"Deserted Cottages", 17" x 8.5", Rembrandt pastels on Hahnemuhle sanded watercolor paper, 1998 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Sometimes a painting holds far more than just the image, and connections that hold many people together, as these deserted cottages did in life, on paper, and inspiration. In October 2011 I posted the original of this painting of deserted cottages along Lake Erie, and told of memories of my mother, selling her house, and […]

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, […]

Main Street, September Morning

Every time I go back to one of my sketches or paintings of Main Street I find it’s changed again since then, lost a building or two, added some trees. The losses hurt just a bit, taking away just another bit of the older, traditional part of Main Street. Where you see the American and […]

Finding Inspiration at “A Bend in the Road”

June 1, 2014, on a lovely sunny day just about noon, I was leaving a morning event and on errands traveling the back roads just for fun, knowing this narrow back road had some wonderful spots. Here is one of them, “A Bend in the Road”. We never know what’s around that bend in the […]