Friday, March 29, 2024
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Garden Sketch With Mimi

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“Garden Sketch With Mimi”, watercolor, 5″ x 7″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Garden Sketch With Mimi isn’t just Mimi in the garden. It’s Mimi in the garden where she used to hunt for food to feed herself and her kittens and sneak sips of water from the water bowl I had outside for my own cats. Now Mimi owns that garden, and naps happily knowing she has a loving forever home here with me.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This was not what I’d intended to paint that day but I like it anyway. It’s Mimi napping in the shadow on the cool bricks among the geraniums, near the vintage aluminum tub where I grow pole beans. Mimi was so happy to be outside she only rested in each position for less than a minute, and the sun was in and out behind the clouds. The temperature was in the 90s and we weren’t doing much but looking for a comfortable spot.

I had wanted something a little tighter in detail, but I like the details this one has. I did a light pencil sketch underneath because it’s so small I knew I’d run out of space if I didn’t give myself some guidance about Mimi, the geraniums and the barrel, but aside from that I just painted.

In part I was using the quick and easy eight-color grade-school watercolor set that’s easy to carry and use. I really need to get a set with a greater color range if I’m going to paint outdoors.

But what was my purpose with this painting? Sometimes I sit down to capture the details of the moment, and some day I’d like to do just that with the reference photos from this, but with my actual sketch, and all my daily sketches, my purpose is just to capture the essence of the moment and share what moved me to render the scene. In this case it was a relaxed Mimi in the shade on a hot morning, stretched on those familiar bricks next to the cool anodized aluminum tub where I’ve always planted pole beans and surrounded by my geraniums saved from year to year. It was a scene I loved for my love of my garden, my appreciation of Mimi relaxing in a place she’d once hunted for food to feed her kittens, and the memory of the generations of cats before her who enjoyed that very spot, this little patio and the verdance of my garden.

Read about Mimi and her change in status.

Where to find this artwork

Prints, cards or and a garden flag

Prints are made in archival inks on Epson Velvet Art Paper, Cold Press Digital Giclee Paper or Artist Canvas.

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Garden Flags

These “garden flags” are digitally printed on both sides of a heavyweight, durable indoor/outdoor woven printable fabric, and I finish by adding the rod pocket. (Bracket is not included.) Shipping is included.

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Each flag has a design on both sides, in this case it’s the same on both sides, but mirrored. This art is “Garden Sketch With Mimi”, originally 5″ wide x 7″ high on 90 lb. watercolor paper signed and dated 6/27/13.

 

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What else was I sketching on this date?

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Happy Slapfest, 2012
sketch of two cats fighting
Nothing serious, just a slapfest.

Pow! Right in the kisser! Bean lands a good one on Giuseppe’s nose.

Their little entanglements never really amount to anything, mostly they just slap each other, almost as if they really don’t want to hurt each other.


Click here to see other daily sketches.

For a gallery of the ones available for sale, visit Portraits of Animals in the “Feline Artwork” section.

Read about the reason for the daily sketches in Three Years of Daily Sketches.

And download your free desktop wallpaper calendar for computer or mobile, usually based on a daily sketch.

“The Goddess” desktop calendar 2560 x 1440 for HD and wide screens.

 


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Tuesday: Rescue Stories
Wednesday: Commissioned Portrait or Featured Artwork
Thursday: New Merchandise
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2 thoughts on “Daily Sketch Reprise: Garden Sketch With Mimi

  • walksoftlyand

    “Garden Sketch With Mimi” — stripped-down and I like it.

    Reply
    • Thanks Meg–me too. It’s actually harder to achieve this effect than to work out a tighter painting when the scene is as detailed as my garden.

      Reply

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