Tag Archives: landscapes

Colorful in Winter

"Colorful", 11" x 15", soft pastel , 2015 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Even if you live in the city you’ll find wildlife everywhere. “Colorful” is one of my favorite duck images on Chartiers Creek from my walks to Main Street. I took the photo several years ago of the mallard balancing on one leg with morning sun reflecting brightly off off a yellow brick building on the […]

A Coral Winter Sunset

One February afternoon I caught a surprise winter sunset and shared photos in “I Chased A Sunset”. …and it disappeared over the edge and took a piece of my soul with it. Really, on the way home from a quick errand to a shopping center I encountered a stunning winter sunset just beginning to color […]

View from Beechwood, A LIttle Time Capsule

View From Beechwood, 14 x 18, ink and acrylic, 1983 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

This painting may look like a recent Carnegie scene but it goes way back. I was just out of college and painted it long before I’d decided to devote part of my career to art, and I marvel that I created this when I did, in 1983. It’s just the beginning of October and the […]

Dawn on a Foggy Summer Morning

Yesterday and last night’s rain produced a foggy morning today. When the sun finally began to shine through the mist it reminded me of this painting from 2000. It’s the view out of one of my back windows toward the east where I always enjoy seeing what the sunrise, or at least the morning sky, […]

The Old Apple Tree

A little bit of mist among the trees illuminated by the rising sun, tinges of gold among the leaves, but the old apple tree will hold its leaves until they begin to turn bronze in the first frost. The land that is Carnegie Park was a farm less than a century ago, and this apple […]

Finding Inspiration at “A Bend in the Road”

June 1, 2014, on a lovely sunny day just about noon, I was leaving a morning event and on errands traveling the back roads just for fun, knowing this narrow back road had some wonderful spots. Here is one of them, “A Bend in the Road”. We never know what’s around that bend in the […]

Two Spring Paintings

“Suddenly, it’s spring, and most days are really sunny! After this winter it’s totally captivating, and distracting. I can’t go anywhere without seeing possible paintings. Like this these, which I photographed as I didn’t have my sketching materials with me because, for the past couple of months, there hasn’t been anything I wanted to sketch, […]

The Inspiration of “A Bend in the Road”

“Social Isolation,” in the Woods in the Time of Covid

pastel painting of trees in spring woods

It was a phrase of the times, but it’s kind of how I always felt when I walked in the woods, and I always enjoyed that time alone with the trees and the shadows and the sun. Turns out it was also good for our health in one more very important way—lots more open space […]

Spring Cleaning, a Little Magic and Memories

"Spring Cleaning", pastel on self-prepared board, 14" x 20", 2006 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I regularly passed the backyard of an old farmhouse near me and was drawn at first by the forsythia, which was right on the edge of the road as I drove past, then as I slowed down I saw the colorful hanging laundry, always a favorite subject. That hazy spring sunlight with long shadows on […]