Marsh Road, Pastel - Portraits of Animals

Marsh Road, Pastel, 8 x 11, 2017. The original is framed in a 1-1/2″ solid wood white weathered frame with no mat and digital, giclee and canvas prints are available.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Marsh Road, pastel on self-prepared board, 8 x 11 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

It’s time for another painting challenge, and I’m ready. My recent trip to Savannah and to see the eclipse inspired a lot of paintings, as have my daily photos and even putting my recent Panhandle Trail exhibit together. In November I’ll have another exhibit of paintings of Carnegie. I have portraits to finish. Time to get the studio time back. I don’t think I’ll do a painting every day, but every other day, as I did in January, would be great.

This was painted from a photo I took in the Savannah Wildlife Refuge. If you are familiar with my paintings you’ll know I love road paintings, and a simple long dirt road through a wildlife refuge is totally entrancing for me along with all those textures and shades of green things all around, and it’s so FLAT. I’m from Western Pennsylvania where things need to be made flat. I took this photo because the road curved through a small stand of live oaks, and you can see the shadows of the trees under the arch along with the light at the end. The simple shapes of the grass, reeds, brush and trees in the distance under that big blue sky graced with clouds that looked too tired under the sun was one image I knew I’d paint.

I used various soft and hard pastels on a self-prepared board. You can see a vertical texture and I tried to both use that and mask it. The panel was an Ampersand pastel panel on which I’d done an illustration that was changed so many times that there was no surface tooth left. I pulled all the pastel off it, sanded it, and brushed it with two coats Golden translucent pastel ground, all brush strokes in one direction. I think it worked out okay.

SHIPPING AND CHARGES

Shipping within the US is included in the cost of each print.

Prints up to 16″ x 20″ are shipped flat in a rigid envelope. Larger prints are shipped rolled in a mailing tube unless otherwise requested; flat shipping is an extra cost because it’s oversized.

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. Digital prints are only available up to 11″ x 17″ and some of the prints are cropped to fit standard mat and frame sizes.

Digital prints have at least 1/2″ around the edges depending on the size of the print. All are countersigned by me.

CANVAS PRINTS

Because the standard size canvas prints are not proportional to the original painting, canvas prints of this painting will have a portion cropped off.

I usually have at least one of the smaller sizes of canvases on hand, but order larger ones as they are ordered because I have limited storage space. 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.

FRAMED PRINTS

I do all my own framing and can custom frame a print for you. Please ask.

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