Featured Daily Sketch: In Window Light, 2012

June 2, 2026 Bernadette

cat sleeping in oil pastel — In Window Light, 5″ x 7″, oil pastel © B.E. Kazmarski

From 2012: Oil pastel again, for the strength of colors and the texture; it’s hot and feels like summer (even though it’s May 26). Here Mimi naps in the light from the window, slipping in under the mini blind. In the strength of the sun, all colors appear in her fur and on the old marble windowsill and the hot yellow sun outside the window.

I’ve been working out this style now following Two Cats After van Gogh. In fact, in my garden flags, this image backs Two Cats After van Gogh, and I just finished a few keepsake boxes bearing the image. Sweet Mimi, so inspiring!

So inspiring, it won the President’s Award along with Two Cats After van Gogh in the Cat Writers Association 2013 Communications Contest. Read about that here.

From 2026: I fully agree with me from back then, and I still love how this one turned out. Mimi is blue, but that’s what I saw in the dark shadows on the hot afternoon, but there’a a reflected glow of green from the old maple outside the window, then the warm sunshine, and Mimi’s typical resting pose, though not her sleeping pose. I painted this from above instead of from the side, which is how I would have seen her from my seat at the drafting table facing the window. I’m glad I did that because I really like the angle too.

Where to find In Window Light

In several places since it’s one of my favorite sketches! You can find prints on paper and canvas and greeting cards on the product post for prints.

As I work my way through setting up for upcoming events and stocking my website you’ll also see In Window Light on other favorite handmade gift items like keepsake boxes and tiles, and a small votive lamp as one of four of the “after van Gogh” designs.

Cats After van Gogh Feline Votive

Cats After van Gogh, three designs and sizes.

Cats After van Gogh Tiles

Daily Sketches 2011 to 2015

I think I accomplished what I'd set out to do three years ago today, a challenge to me and entertainment and enjoyment for you: to create a quick sketch of my cats each day as a way to practice and experiment, and present the sketch on that day with no editing, no waiting, no excuses, just to do the sketch and share it.

Read more about the reason for the daily sketches in Daily Sketches: the Idea, Most Popular, Awards.

Click here to see other daily sketches.

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

"Feline Style Sampler" book of sketches and portraits.

A collection of 34 images of feline artwork

**The award-winning* Feline Style Sampler**

Now in its third printing since 2013! Daily sketches, illustrations, commissioned portraits all in a small coil-bound gift book. Click here or on the image to read more or find this book on Portraits of Animals.

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*Certificate of Excellence, Cat Writers' Association 2014 Communications Contest

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Originals and Prints inspired by rescued cats from Portraits of Animals!

You can find all three of the items in the trio above in:

Votive Lamps

Keepsakes

Tiles and Coasters

Copyright

All images and text used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission, although links to your site are more than welcome and are shared. Please ask if you are interested in using and image or story in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of an image or a product including it, check my animal and nature website Portraits of Animals to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit Ordering Custom Artwork for more information on a custom greeting card, print or other item.