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"Spring Morning", pastel, 6" x 8" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski "Spring Morning", pastel, 6" x 8" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
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The Artist’s Life: Two Special Originals Sold

December 28, 2019January 1, 2020 Bernadette 0 Comments cat art, cat artwork, original artwork, sold original art

Just as I want cats I foster to go to the home that will love and cherish them forever, I

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Franklin, pastel, 8 x 10, first draft.
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Commissioned Portrait: Franklin, First Draft

July 10, 2019July 12, 2019 Bernadette 2 Comments cat artwork, cat painting, commissioned portrait, pet portrait, portrait

Meet Franklin, the subject of my next portrait. He’s an older boy, 15 years to be exact, and a nice

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Here in the Shadows, 2013

July 9, 2019July 12, 2019 Bernadette 0 Comments black cat, black cats, cat art, cat artwork, cat sketches, cats, pastel portrait, pastel sketch of cat

June was (supposed to be) sunny, July is usually a little too sunny—and hot. But a shady corner next to

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A trio of portraits
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Commissioned Portrait Trio: Lucy, Ethel and Bubba

June 26, 2019May 29, 2020 Bernadette 5 Comments cat artwork, cat painting, commissioned portrait, pastel portrait of six cats, pet portrait, portrait, portraits of three cats

Meet Lucy, Ethel and…Bubba! Yes, that’s right. I just finished this trio of portraits of three rescued shelter cats adopted

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"Stained Glass Feline Family", pastel, 12" x 28", Bernadette E. Kazmarski
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Commissioned Portrait Finished: Stained Glass Feline Family

April 25, 2019May 29, 2020 Bernadette 3 Comments cat artwork, cat painting, commissioned portrait, pastel portrait of six cats, pet portrait, portrait

  The last step of my latest commissioned portrait—adding the “leading” in the “stained glass window”. When I finished adding

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Next draft.
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Commissioned Portrait in Progress: Stained Glass Feline Family

April 13, 2019April 14, 2019 Bernadette 0 Comments cat artwork, cat painting, commissioned portrait, pastel portrait of six cats, pet portrait, portrait

I don’t often get the chance to share a portrait while I’m working on it. Most of my portraits are

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Three in a Bed, 2013

April 10, 2019 Bernadette 2 Comments black cat, black cats, cat art, cat artwork, cat sketches, cats, ink sketch of cats

Mr. Sunshine, Giuseppe and Mewsette were piled in their new bed by the window all afternoon in a variety of

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Fingerpaint Cat, 2014

February 20, 2019 Bernadette 0 Comments black cat, black cats, cat art, cat artwork, cat sketches, cats

Working on my pastel paintings is often like fingerpainting for me—blend a lot of pastel onto the paper, then swirl

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Blue-Brown Cats, 2012

December 4, 2018December 5, 2018 Bernadette 0 Comments cat art, cat artwork, cat sketches, cats, cats bathing, pastel sketch of cat, two cats

Mewsette gave Jelly Bean a very slow and thorough bath, just right for a sketch for me because they weren’t

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Commissioned Portrait: Luigi

August 9, 2018 Bernadette 0 Comments cat art, cat artwork, cat sketches, cats, commissioned portrait, exotic shorthair, pastel portrait, pedigreed cat, pet portraits, purebred cat, show cat

This portrait was a gift from the person who commissioned me to a friend of his, and was a really

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I don’t know what it is I like about visual word puzzles, but I doodled them when I was younger.

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Book Reviews

How to Photograph Your Cat by Walter Chandoha
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How to Photograph Your Cat, from 1955

November 10, 2019 Bernadette 0

I found this little gem of a booklet I knew I had somewhere in this house. A friend gave it

photo by Walter Chandoha from puss n boots ad
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Vintage Cat Food Ads, and A Career Inspired By a Rescued Cat: Photographer Walter Chandoha

January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 Bernadette 5
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A Career Inspired By a Rescued Cat, Vintage Cat Food Ads, and Photographer Walter Chandoha

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Cat Confessions: A "Kitty Come Clean" Tell-all Book by Allia Zobel Nolan
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Cat Confessions, a Book Review by Mewsette and Me

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Not Just for Ferals, HCMT Hosts 13 Free and Low-cost Spay/Neuter Clinics Through June 2021

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One Lot of Natural Balance® Ultra Premium Chicken & Liver Paté Formula Canned Cat Food Recalled

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Recalls

One Lot of Natural Balance® Ultra Premium Chicken & Liver Paté Formula Canned Cat Food Recalled
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One Lot of Natural Balance® Ultra Premium Chicken & Liver Paté Formula Canned Cat Food Recalled

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The J. M. Smucker Company Issues Voluntary Recall of Specific Lots of Special Kitty® Wet Cat Food
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The J. M. Smucker Company Issues Voluntary Recall of Specific Lots of Special Kitty® Wet Cat Food

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Voluntary Recall of Muse Wet Cat Food Natural Chicken Recipe

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