Featured Daily Sketch: Out the Front Door, 2014

September 11, 2025 Bernadette

watercolor of three black cats with spattered background — “Looking Out the Front Door”, cropped version, Watercolor, 6″ x 9″, 9/6/2014 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Giuseppe, Mimi and Mewsette spend some time watching out the front door. There are birds fluttering and chipmunks racing back and forth across the porch, Fatso the squirrel runs up and down the tree now and then, butterflies and bees fly around, the leaves flutter in the breeze, now and then a car goes by, or people walk up or down the hill, sometimes with a dog. They watch it all with quiet interest. Until the chipmunk goes by.

This took me nearly all day, but only because I wanted to wait for the big splats of watercolor to dry. I’m glad I took a reference photo. The three were long gone by the time I got around to painting them in. Looking at this sketch and looking at where they were sitting brings them back into the room with me for a bit.

My thoughts on “Out the Front Door” this year

This afternoon I noticed the neighbor’s dogwood is burnishing with the first reddish leaves—in this painting, that is the red in the background, so I decided to feature this daily sketch today. The yellow and green is the branches of still-green leaves plus the first yellow leaves on the silver maple that was in front of the house until 2018, the bits of blue the September sky. I have a full-view storm door, all the way down to the doorstep, and my cats are a big reason for that though I enjoy it too. Observing them in their feline behavior was always a joy, and an even greater one when I created an image from what they were doing.

Where to find “Out the Front Door”

I offer the framed original, and giclée, digital and canvas prints of this painting, and can always have prints made for you in other sizes. I can also custom frame your print or custom cut a mat for a frame you already own.

You can also purchase a single card or a dozen in a box on my website.

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Original Painting or Prints of “Out the Front Door”

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Merchandise featuring “Out the Front Door “ (right now I have garden flags and a votive lamp)

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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.

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