Squashes, 12 x 12,oil pastel, 1998 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Squashes, New Member Print

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

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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