Garden Flag, Olivia and Archie - Portraits of Animals

Garden Flag, Olivia and Archie 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 “Olivia and Archie”

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

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.

To see more book covers and read about them visit The Creative Cat.

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