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The thank you gifts always include matted digital prints of art and photos that I usually sell for between $20.00 and $40.00. The selection includes the current month’s featured artwork and several of the more popular images I sell. Sizes vary according to the size of the art itself—some of my more popular sketches are as small as 3″ x 5″—but they are always matted to fit a standard frame size so you can use a frame you have on hand or easily purchase one without the cost of custom framing.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my pastel “Forest Bathing”. Prints are made in archival inks on Epson Satin Art Paper. This print is 9″ x 13″ and is matted with a cream mat to fit an 12″ x 16″ frame.
Forest Bathing, pastel, 16 x 22, 2023 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
About Forest Bathing
A view of the misty spring woods.
I’ve always loved this ravine just off the Panhandle Trail for the angle of light that enters it, that deep “V” shape creating colorful highlights and rich shadows and always mossy logs with a little sparkle of water that meanders down the center.
And in nearly all seasons I’m intrigued by the soft mysteries in that mist when the woods are damp, filled with muted light.
I took the reference photo for this painting on an unusually warm day in early March 2022, walking barefoot in the woods around the Panhandle Trail between the snows. There was plenty of mist on that day as the warm sun reached the cool damp soil, and as I walked past this ravine on my way to the trail that winds up and up the hill the light was perfect to capture that feeling.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my in drawing “Tri-color Girls Settling Down for a Nap”. This print is 8 x 8 and is matted to fit a 12 x 12 frame.
Tricolor Girls Settling Down for a Nap, pastel, 14 x 14, 2022 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
They may be well-camouflaged among the pillows, but that’s the way they liked it. My three precious tri-color girls settle down for a nap on the bed on a bright, sunny winter afternoon, February 27, 2007. Peaches was 17, Cookie, 15, and Kelly, 14. Peaches had been with us for about 18 months, but it was as if these three had always been together; this is not the only photo of the three of them on the bed from that era. It was a regular thing. The memories are precious. You can read more about this artwork in the product post here.
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Your New Member Gift print of my watercolor “Geraniums and Parsley” is an 8″ x 11″ print matted in white to fit an 11″ x 14″ frame.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Geraniums and Parsley (uncropped), watercolor, 6 x 9 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
An artist in one of the groups I post in said she could feel the “absolute joy” in this painting. Yes, the exuberance of nature on a beautiful summer day, and my joy at even just a little bit of life and color to be inspired by in the year I didn’t have a garden.
I always have a few pots of herbs on the deck and a few pots of geraniums on the steps. I’ve always had a big garden but for two years after trees fell I did not, and those herbs and geraniums were all I had. But when I looked out the back door, the bright red and pink, the bright light green parsley alight with mid-day sunlight in the blue Chinese pot, and the trees out at the end of the yard were more welcome than I’d ever imagined. I smiled when I looked at the scene wanting to remember it. The bright colors and complex greens also made me want to paint it.
When I painted this I was working on my “spatters”— I decided this would be a good painting to see what spattering with various brushes with paint and water could to with the background. I think they worked pretty well here. I also piled paint up in the upper left where it’s dark, and let it spill and move over the paper, then let it dry to form the leaves in the trees. I like it.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my watercolor “Blue and Yellow”. This print is 8.25″ x 8.25″ and matted with a white mat to fit a 12″ x 12″ frame.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Blue and Yellow, Watercolor, 8.25 x 8.25, 2022 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski.
This time of the year is always about the first bursts of color, especially blooming things. I always have a stem or two or more of forsythia in my kitchen, and in those brief moments of sunshine the yellow is warm and brilliant before the classic Blue Willow dishes.
I took a bunch of photos of the forsythia in my kitchen on April 8, 2006, and this one in particular stayed with me. The late afternoon sun angles in at that time of the year, and it just highlighted the area with the forsythia branch, as if it was intentional, but the clear light also defined the detailed pattern on the Blue Willow dishes. I love both. And not only was the sun’s natural highlight inspiring, but the shadows were as well, in the deep areas where the pattern is muted, and the middle areas where there is reflected light within the shadow.
Such a simple image, and so much to see within it. I wanted to paint this photo from that day on, both for all the inspirations I found in it and my love for paintings of little domestic settings with all their everyday details. I’m glad I finally did!
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my oil watercolor “Three Black and White Cats” made in archival inks on Epson Velvet Art Paper. This print is 8″ x 8″, matted in pure white mat board for a 12″ x 12″ frame.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Three Black and White Cats, watercolor, 12 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
It’s one of the rare portraits where I started painting and decided it wouldn’t work, abandoned that initial effort and started over, and so I have two portraits of these three black and white cats.
I decided to frame and sell that original watercolor as well as prints and greeting cards and who knows what else. When I took it out this time I added a little shading around the cats so their white parts didn’t fade into the peach background, and cropped it to 12″ x 12″.
You can read all about the process and learning and changes that created both portraits in the product listing for this painting.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my oil pastel painting “Squashes”. Prints are made in archival inks on acid-free Epson art paper. This print is 8″ x 8″ matted with a white mat to fit a 12″ x 12″ frame.
Squashes, 12 x 12,oil pastel, 1998 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
ABOUT THE ART
I had painted “Green Apples” earlier that year, and the woman who purchased it decided that she would like two paintings for the spot, identical in size, matting and framing and perhaps style. We discussed several subjects, but as the summer waned and she mentioned golds and earth tones, I knew it had to be squashes. One of my favorite vegetables to grow and to eat, they were just about ready to harvest, and their colors were perfect to create a piece to complement the Green Apples. She had incorporated a Jacquard pattern into some of the fabrics in her dining room, so I incorporated it into the background of the painting.
I was new to oil pastel–before “Green Apples” they felt like crayons and I never thought I’d get used to them, being so accustomed to chalk pastels. But it was the very differences that kept drawing me back–the brilliance of the colors, the quickness of a sketch, the ability to create “impasto”, or an actual thickness of the medium on the paper seen most often in oil paintings. My Granny Smiths were politely piled in their bowl, unaware that they were providing a great inspiration for me to do my first still life, and to do it in oil pastel as an experiment. I chose one of my favorite colorful 1940s cotton tablecloths featuring lemons and raspberries to drape over the little round table.
You can also find this painting in my gallery of Still Lifes and Florals.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my ink and watercolor “Nikka’s Jupiter Ball”. Prints are made in archival inks on Epson Silky Photo Paper. This print is 8″ x 11″ and matted to fit an 11″ x 14″ frame.
Nikka’s Jupiter Ball, pastel, 10 x 15, 2023 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
It’s exciting to see an idea, an image you’ve visualized for decades, suddenly be there right before your eyes. All of Nikka’s markings and her big round yellow-green eyes, all the rich colors, the light, the familiar things, just what I’ve been seeing all these years. And mostly, the moment and the memory she and I shared of one of her favorite activities. She made direct eye contact with me—”do you see this?!”—yes, I could see her excitement, and then she put on an athletic feat of chasing it all around the room.
It’s titled “Nikka’s Jupiter Ball” because what inspired it is Nikka’s excited expression and her ball right there, a moment I saw when I walked into my bedroom one late afternoon and saw here in the sun under the rocker, then saw the ball and understood. It was her favorite toy and she always got the big round eyes when she saw it, then she’d bat it all over the room.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my pastel painting “The Garden Gate” and is made in archival inks on Epson Velvet Art Paper. This print is 5″ x 7″ and matted with a natural white mat to fit an 8″ x 10″ frame.
About “The Garden Gate”
The Garden Gate, Watercolor, 5 x 7, 1994
For someone who is a gardener and spends a lot of time in her yard–what a special place! If I can’t have it in my yard, at least I can paint it. The arbor sporting ivy, the old rhododendron crowning the entrance and the gate, mysteriously left ajar and leading to a stone path to another part of the garden.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my watercolor “Peach Begonias” made in archival inks on Epson Velvet Art Paper. This print is 8″ x 8″ and matted to fit a 12″ x 12″ frame with a pure white mat.
About “Waiting Around the Corner”
Peach Begonias, watercolor, 8 x 8, 2023 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
Peach begonias? But they look pink…but the kitty’s name was Mr. Peach and he’s surrounded by my overwintering begonias one of many photos I took in March 2007. “Peach Begonias” was my shorthand for this series of photos taken over a few weeks that I knew I’d want to paint someday. And someday has arrived!
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of “Bath, Interrupted” made in archival inks on Strathmore Cotton. It is 8 x 10 and matted to fit an 11 x 14 frame with a pure white mat.
“Bath, Interrupted”, pastel, 13″ x 10″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
About the artwork
Yes, it’s my little butterfly Mariposa giving me that “I’ve so got you wrapped around my fluffy tail” expression as she pauses in her toilette to pose for yet another photo.
I’ve been planning to paint her as she is, not as I imagine or would like to pose her. I’ve been just waiting to get to know her a little better by constantly studying her—oh, please, twist my arm, make me stalk one of my cats and take endless photos. They enjoy all the attention and praise for permitting me to get a good photo. The continued study is to find the habits, postures and expressions that really belong to Mariposa. And also to see her in the places she likes best, and she loves the bed.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of “Olivia and Archie”. This print is 8 x 10 and matted with a pure white mat to fit an 11 x 14 frame.
Olivia and Archie, pastel, 8 x 10 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
This painting was originally an illustration for a cozy cat mystery book cover, Olivia’s Secret, by author Patricia Fry whose book covers I’ve illustrated since 2013. I still have all the original art and this recent cover kept catching my eye as a nice painting of two cats with flowers, which is not always typical of art for book covers.
Olivia, the calico cat, is the subject of the series of mysteries and is also the author’s cat. Patricia describes the idea she has to me and supplies photos of Olivia for me to use in designing the illustrations, and I do the rest. Archie, the ginger cat, is a friend of Olivia’s and shows up in the stories now and then. In this instance, sunflowers played a part in the mystery, and she wanted them positioned on a porch. The book covers are 5″ x 8″ so I need to compose vertically and steps work well, and the green in the reference photo I used made a vibrant background. There is more to the illustration top and bottom, but those areas are where the cover and other information go, and have little detail.
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This New Member print is a signed digital print of my photo “Market Flowers”. Prints are made in archival inks on Epson Silky Photo Paper. This print is 8″ x 11″ and matted with a pure white mat to fit an 11″ x 14″ frame.
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
I visit many farmer’s markets through the summer now that every community seems to have one at least once a week, to purchase what my garden is not producing. All the farmers are local and are small family farms and I enjoy meeting the people who grow my food, and who took the time to pick it and sort it and wash it and pack it the day of the market. This particular farmer had buckets and buckets of flowers and in the light from the sky all the flowers were so vibrant I couldn’t pass them up.