Tag Archives: my home town

Familiar Details on a “Dead End” Street

Dead End, pastel on prepared board, 8 x 12 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I love snowy winter scenes, blue morning shadows or brilliant sunsets, snowfall, surprise bits of color. Winter has long been my biggest inspiration for landscape painting. And I also love a row of houses in the sun without snow, the bare trees, the long shadows, and this dead end street has so many familiar elements. […]

Stark Winter Sun on a “Dead End” Street

“Dead End”, Late Afternoon, Winter

After yesterday’s snow, today was cold but sunny enough to melt the snow, with big puffy clouds slowly meandering overhead. I painted this little dead end street in my home town on just such a day. I love a row of houses in the sun. This street dead ends at the top of the bank […]

Memorial Day Parade, from the “My Home Town” Series

“Memorial Day Parade”, 12″ x 18″, pencil, 2008 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

The good old traditional parade on the good old traditional Main Street, in my home town of Carnegie, PA. I am not a big fan of parades but my mother loved them, so every year until the year before she died I set us up on Main Street regardless of the weather and we cheered […]

A Warm September Morning on Main Street

Main Street, September Morning, pastel, 8 x 11 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, a little hazy from a morning mist, and though it was mid-September it was warm and humid. On the way to the grocery store that Sunday morning on my bike I was out early because the day would be hot, but at that time it was just sweet, […]

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. We’ve had a very rainy October and very […]

Main Street September Morning

There was not a cloud in the sky, hazy from a morning mist, and though it was mid-September it was hot and humid. It was that last warm, languid morning of the season that I wanted to capture. I love quiet little street scenes, and living in a small town they aren’t difficult to find. […]

View from Beechwood, Acrylic and Ink

This painting may look like a recent Carnegie scene but it goes way back, 34 years to be exact. 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. This was a […]

How Many Sunsets Have Warmed This Place

How Many Sunsets, pastel, Pastel, 10 x 12, 2003 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

How many sunsets have shone on this site in Carnegie, the angled sun shining nearly horizontally on the cliff about the creek. Currently, it’s Ross Colonial Cemetery, named so for the Ross family of settlers around the time of the Revolutionary War, but the site has been a lookout for millennia as one can stand […]