Interior With Cat, watercolor, 8 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I Just Can’t Keep the Cat Out of the Picture

Interior With Cat, watercolor, 8 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Interior With Cat, watercolor, 8 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

It was just meant to be the flowers and the cloth, but around my house it’s hard to keep the cat out of the picture.

A customer stopped by to pick up her portrait and noticed this painting quietly hanging on my wall by the door and I realized I’ve never featured it! In fact, I forget about it too, even though I really like how it turned out.

Those calendulas, which had braved a pretty hard frost, opened fully when the sun shone in the windows the next day, and that was the first inspiration for this piece. I photographed the calendula, intending to paint only them, but when I looked over the photographs in preparation for painting, I noticed the cloth, the paperwhites in the pot, the light glare on the table, and of course, the cat. It developed into a much larger work than I had wanted, but it was a real challenge to create something from a different perspective than I usually have. And since I create so many other works involving my cats, I really tried hard to keep the cat out of it, but it just wasn’t complete until I painted Sophie in. I’m glad I have this memory of her longtime habit of sitting in that corner of the door, looking out on the deck and yard.

While I render many other subjects now it all began with my cats and the hopeless affection I felt for each of them and all their moods and quirks and manners of affection toward me. This is the gift they gave to me, and I will be forever in their debt, spending a lifetime to pay it off by sharing them with others.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Interior with Cat, Watercolor is 8″ x 12″ on 140 lb. watercolor paper framed with a triple mat white-red-white, all black core, and a narrow modern white painted wood frame.

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SHIPPING

Shipping within the US is included in all the prices listed. All shipping is via Priority Mail. Prints are shipped flat in a rigid envelope. Canvases are shipped in a box to fit with padding. Since this original is small it is also shipped in a box with extra padding.

ORIGINAL PAINTING

This painting is 8″ wide x 12″ high on acid-free 90 lb. watercolor paper. It is matted with 2-5/8″ acid-free white mats with black core on top, then 1/8″ red mat with white core, then 1/4″ white with black core on the bottom. The frame is a 1″ decorative solid wood frame painted white. The backing is acid-free foam core and the glass is premium clear glass. All framing is done by me in my studio.

WHEN ORDERING PRINTS
Because this painting is 8″ x 12″, ordering an 8″ x 10″ will crop a portion from the top of the image so I’ve offered full-size prints in various types for the same price.

GICLEE PRINTS

The giclees are printed on acid-free hot press art paper for a smooth matte finish using archival inks. Giclee is the highest quality print available because the technique uses a dozen or more ink ports to capture all the nuances of the original painting, including details of the texture, far more sensitive than any other printing medium. Sometimes my giclees look so much like my originals that even I have a difficult time telling them apart when they are in frames.

I don’t keep giclee prints in stock for most of my works. Usually I have giclees printed as they are ordered unless I have an exhibit where I’ll be selling a particular print so there is a wait of up to two weeks before receipt of your print to allow for time to print and ship.

DIGITAL PRINTS

Digital prints are made on acid-free matte-finish natural white 100# cover using archival digital inks. While digital prints are not the quality of a giclee in capturing every nuance and detail of color, texture and shading, I am still very pleased with the outcome and usually only I as the artist, could tell where detail and color were not as sharp as the original.

CANVAS PRINTS

I usually have at least one of the smaller sizes of canvases on hand, but order larger ones as they are ordered here because customers often want a custom size. Smaller canvases are a 3/4″ in depth, canvases 12 x 16 and larger are 1-1/2″ in depth. I set them up so the image runs from edge to edge, then the sides are black or white or sometimes I slip in a color that coordinates with the painting.

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