Garden Flag, Hawkeye on the Glider - Portraits of Animals

Garden Flag, Hawkeye on the Glider is 11″ x 15″, design imprinted on one side of a cotton duck canvas fabric panel with a 1.5″ rod pocket sewn across the top. Bracket is not included.

Garden flag, Hawkeye on the Glider

Flags are printed on one side of a cotton duck canvas panel and I stitch a pocket across the top and roll up a hem at the bottom to keep it from curling.

I typically stock all garden flags, though I only print smaller quantities, usually no more than two or three at a time. If you’d like a quantity of flags, or a custom flag, please send me an email.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Summer Living (Hawkweye on the Glider), watercolor, 8 x 10 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Though this painting might seem current because it contains a black cat and it’s flowery and colorful, I actually painted it in 1993, so the cat is neither one of my current housepanthers, nor is he my Kublai, or any one of my fosters. This was actually an experimental portrait style I wanted to try oh so long ago with a photo of a friend’s cat; it was not commissioned, but something I chose to do on my own. I had been studying the detailed and decorative feline art of so many of the artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s, well, all my life, and as I’d finally achieved a certain amount of skill and confidence with my realistic pastel, pencil and ink portraits, I really wanted to loosen up and start creating that other style of art I’d been visualizing all along.

When I saw this photo of Hawkeye on the glider with those floral cushions what you see was pretty much what I visualized, just a flowery background with a cat in it, and a black cat, a good way for me to start working with cats and patterns when the cat was a solid color and especially that classic cat silhouette. I decided for that painting not to cover the entire background with the flower pattern as I’d initially decided because I also liked some of the wispy flowers and buds and leaves in the pattern and wanted to soften the edges with that.

I was just experimenting with watercolor, and though I felt I could create this in watercolor I didn’t feel entirely confident I could control it enough to get the tight details. I chose to use gouache, a medium I knew many illustrators used and which I felt would give me the opacity and intensity I wanted for this. I’d used it once before in a drawing class in college, but there was no time like right then to experiment.

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