bernadettek.bsky.social
Artist, writer, cat rescuer, and a lot of other things.
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Yes! If her purse was anywhere near her and someone stole it from the floor around her or hanging on her chair or something like that, how did that person even get that close to her? Or was it in a check room or something? I've never heard that explanation.
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Hmmm, let's see...What's different about those people who don't see these actions as weaponizing the government? It shocks me when I see MAGAs interviewed, that few to none only know the jargon and not the issue.
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I sold the original painting but have prints on paper and canvas.
#landscapepainting #laundrypainting #pastelpainting #backyardlaundry #hangoutyourlaundry
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I still have the geraniums and forget me nots and Camassia, and I also know that this little spot, dear to me from the day I moved out all the old owner’s stuff and claimed it for my own, changes a little each year.
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I still hang laundry out each day that it’s nice enough to dry things, but when the big wild black cherry came down it took the lilac.
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...are the first geraniums blooming after I’ve brought them out of their winter home inside. The short blue is forget-me-nots, the tall a flowering bulb Camassia a friend's gift years ago still blooming reliably each spring. My dishtowels, sheets, little nightie, it’s all so wonderfully familiar.
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The lilac had never bloomed this much—after about 15 years guarding my gate it had finally come into its prime. The red specks in the back are the first roses on my red climber that swings over the gate, the pink flowers on the chair and on the ground...
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I have a thing for laundry in paintings, so I decided to take some time to do a little sketch.
"There was an artist in my yard!"
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What got me in trouble this afternoon in 2013 when I should have gotten some work done inside was my laundry with the lilac blooming above it, and the roses on the gate, and the first geraniums and spring flowers, all looked very much like a painting I should paint.
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It’s warm and sunny enough to hang out the laundry once again. This painting always reminds me of those first spring mornings when it’s warm and comfortable and I want to stay outside all day, and that sometimes gets me in trouble with my self-employed work schedule.
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I loved sketching the familiar things about Giuseppe: the way he curved his long tail, the way he tucked his front legs and stretched his hind legs, his elongated muzzle and large ears, and his big, solid shape.
#giuseppeverdicat #blackcat #catart #catartwork #catsinmemory #thecreativecat
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Today: I always enjoyed vine charcoal, soft and easily blended, but this is compressed charcoal in a pencil, firmer and denser, very dark with heavy coverage, still good for light sketchy lines and light coverage but not very blendable.
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You can see he waited until I began to sketch to resettle himself with the series of lines above his back...this is how it is sometimes, but always worth it for the outcome.
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Second: "Relaxed", charcoal pencil, 6.5" x 4.5", 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
Today I'm still exploring all those interesting foreshortened Giuseppe angles since I had such difficulty yesterday although it came out okay.
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Still, it is Giuseppe, and I know he is dreaming of Mlle. just because.
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The light from the mirror partly reflected on him, creating some interesting and somewhat challenging highlights and mid-range shadows, the angle a little awkward too because I couldn't get enough distance to get my perspective correct and have a lot of unintended scribbles.
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First: "A Nap With a View", charcoal pencil, 6.5" x 9", 2013 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
Giuseppe stretches his long body full length atop the wardrobe from which he can look all around the second floor, down the stairs, and out the second-floor window over the valley on a lovely spring afternoon.
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#mrmaxfostercat #bellagirl #hamletistobe #catintroductions #fostercats #blackouts #thecreativecat
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His roommate Morty has been coming out to explore the upstairs for a few minutes now and then. So far so good. I am working on scent swapping with little pieces of fleece in all of the beds and switching them around along with little calming measures wherever they're needed.
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One big hiss and sometimes he leaves, but they don't respond with any negative reactions anymore, so I'm hoping that in time this little bit of conflict will level out.
He's such a nice kitty, and he really enjoys being out of his room and exploring and even trying to steal my food.
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#tulips #tulipswatercolor #watercolortulips #watercolor #tulippainting
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In the end I was pretty pleased that my first "large" watercolor, larger than 8 x 10, turned out the way I visualized it—not exactly because some magic happened while I was painting that I did not consciously plan. That's what makes it really exciting for me.
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...of the J.C. Penney catalog and a teapot I'd photographed in a vintage/antique shop. Painting the tulips was fun but far easier for their detail than the loose brushwork in the curtain, table and the rest of the background. And I did figure out how to paint that rust.
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...from the open window has whipped it up and gracefully placed it there.
I patched this together from a bunch of source materials in 1998—bunch of tulips from a photo someone gave me of their bunch of tulips that I really wanted to watercolor with a couple of photos from the drapery section...
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I intentionally kept the background vague and loose in shades of green and neutral tones to complement the brilliant reds, oranges and yellows and extreme detail in each of the tulips. The frothy white curtain, minimally worked, rests atop the flowers as if a spring breeze...
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They were the last two of my household dating back to the 90s and the sketches created a bridge to the "new" feline family.
#kellygirlkellydot #tortoiseshellcat #tortiethursday #catart #catartwork #catpastel #catsketch #thecreativecat
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Kelly and Cookie, my two torties, were part of the first few months of my daily cat sketches and I'm so glad I had the chance to catch those two in sketches from life before they left us.
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This is done in my old friend, pastel, or chalk pastel to differentiate from my new friend oil pastel. This is the joy of daily sketches for me, that little exploration.
Today: I like the non-representational color and how it almost looks abstract except to people who see cats everywhere.
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I hadn't set out to do quite this, but this was what resulted from a lovely ideal of Kelly sleeping quietly in the sun...right after her hatha yoga bath. It turned out to be all about Kelly today, but she was so enjoying the sun on that cabinet, and I was so enjoying her.
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...and I'm so glad I had the chance to sketch Kelly right in that moment. Here's what I had to say when I sketched this scene and shared it in 2012:
Because I always hope she feels the warmth of love.
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The sketch is from April 17, 2012, and the light is coming around to that angle now as the daylight approaches the same position a few weeks before the autumnal equinox as it does a few weeks after the vernal equinox. I remember the warm and saturated colors as Kelly napped on the cabinet,...
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Sienna can be a little timid in other circumstances, but when it's time to make the bed, go to bed, get up from bed, she is all over any attention she can get.
And she's a purrfect meowdel when the camera comes out.
#siennafostertortie #tortiecat #tortiethursday #tortoiseshellcat #tnrworks
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She loves the bed. She appears out of nowhere when I make the bed, leaps in the middle of what I'm doing and rolls around. She gets her pets, and we continue the process over pretty much the entire bed. This takes some time, but it's worth it.
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I’m glad I finally got around to sketching our backyard bunny--it’s one of the sketches and paintings I’ve been planning for years. Maybe I’ll even sketch that pesky squirrel too (no squirrels yet).
#backyardbunny #rabbit #wildrabbit #cottontail
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And then I decided to do one right then! I did take my drawing materials outside but I only got a start out there so it’s not quite en plein air; I finished it inside. Bunnies have many of the same habits as it bears a resemblance to a photo I’d taken of a bunny in the back yard a few years ago.
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This is one of my backyard bunnies from back in 2014. I’d been watching them since early morning in my yard and the neighbor’s, the grass bright green and the sun shining warm through their tall ears, and decided I’d eventually do a sketch of them, too, back in the days of my daily cat sketches.
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The original of this sketch is still available as well as prints, and this will also appear on a few gift items coming up soon. Please ask if you are interested.
#giuseppeverdicat #catart #blackcatart #blackcat #catartwork #catsketch #catnap #officecat #inksketch #inkandmarker #thecreativecat
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It started with a lot of study of how other people did it, and a book of ink techniques, then lots of practice. My cats are the best subjects. Wish I could claim their upkeep on my taxes.
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How about all that fur, and showing the highlights on Giuseppe's nose and around his eyes, and differentiate between his shoulder and his arm?
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I loved all the practice in just black ink pen sketching in my daily cat sketches. How to deal with a white mug and the shading it needs without making it look striped or just dirty?
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