Tag Archives: trees

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 […]

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, […]

Celebrate Summer in “The Swimming Hole”

"The Swimming Hole", pastel, 11" X 15", 2014

On a hot summer afternoon out on the trail, there is nothing more refreshing to me than wading into the deeper area of a stream and cooling off. This painting was actually visualized during one of the visits with my great nieces and nephews and I knew I’d have to paint it, but it came […]

What’s On My Easel? Saplings, Acrylic on Canvas

abstract acrylic painting of trees in woods

I took a photo of saplings along the creek in early spring along the Panhandle Trail. The straight lines of the saplings and varied colors and widths and patterns with the light behind them, and even a bit of the creek, immediately appeared to me as a larger painting, but abstracted. I just wanted to […]

November Nature Desktop Calendar: The Bench

Desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors.

I took a photo of this brilliant scene years ago, one of the first photos I took with my brand hew Pentax K1000 film camera. A couple of decades later I was surprised one autumn morning to see it wasn’t terribly different. I pulled the original photo and saw the trees hadn’t quite grown in […]

October Nature Desktop Calendar: The Lichen Tree

What treasures we find if we only turn and look. Is that awesome or what? There are so many colors of leaves in this one small area, but the lichen tree, as I named it, is actually completely dead and bare, is what really makes it for me. The sun had been covered by overcast […]

September Nature Desktop Calendar: September Morning, Carnegie Park

Morning mist illuminated by the rising sun, long shadows across the dry ground with dewy grass, and just a touch of turning color in the leaves on the trees—after a long, hot summer the cool nights of autumn have arrived. This painting is tiny, just a quick 6 x 6 sketch, layering a base of […]

Keep Cool in “The Swimming Hole”

"The Swimming Hole", pastel, 17 x 8, 2014 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Paths I Have Walked is Heading to an Exhibit

"Paths I Have Walked", pastel, 16" x 28" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

As I’m preparing for my sixth annual Sun Shadow Ice & Snow: Seasons on the Panhandle Trail exhibit in two weeks, it’s exciting to know that this painting from my 2016 exhibit will be heading to another exhibit just a few days later. The exhibit, “Collective Works of Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators”, is hosted by […]