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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Madison”
“Madison”, pastel, 12″ x 10″, 2009 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski A PORTRAIT IS a reunion of sorts, bringing together memories of times and places in order to portray the subject with some depth and...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “A Wonderful Gift”
“A Wonderful Gift”, pastel, 12″ x 14″, 2010 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES A CAT has so many connections to other cats or people or circumstances or places, but then this Peaches’s life was...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: Sooty
“Sooty”, 1997, pastel, 11″ x 7″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T MATTER how much sentiment is attached to adopting a cat, how much people pay for a cat, or how beautiful or sweet it is,...
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A Great Rescue and a Commissioned Portrait: Bandit Stole His Daddy’s Heart
“Bandit”, pastel, 18″ x 14″, 2004 © B.E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES WE DON’T realize until years later that a series of odd circumstances has an intention beyond our control; often this involves the entry of...
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Rescue Stories in “Great Rescues Day Book”
Great Rescues Day Book, cover and two-page spread. While I’m working up a few new rescue stories, and a few new ideas, don’t forget you can have a year’s worth of rescue stories in one book. I’ve used...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: Holly on the Rocker
Holly on the Rocker, watercolor, 8″ x 12″, 2008 © B.E. Kazmarski A LITTLE WHITE LIE is sometimes what it takes to save an animal from a bad situation. Well, that and a convenient cereal box, but it all...
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A Great Rescue: Milan and Felix
“Milan and Felix”, pastel, 22″ x 15″, 2005 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski TWO ADULT CATS who’d lost their people but found their way to the same rescuing household; we build our rescued families first out...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portraits: Samantha, and Honey, Tommy and Andy
“Samantha”, pastel, 23″ x 19″, 1994 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski THERE HAS NOT been another kitty since Samantha, though her rescuer had loved and rescued cats nearly all her life. Sometimes a memory is...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portraits: The Cat of a Lifetime
Two portraits of Sherman. IF YOU’LL ONLY BE ABLE to share your life with one cat, then finding a cat like Sherman is truly finding the cat of a lifetime. And their attachment was so profound they...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: I’ll Be Seeing You
“Cooper”, 1996, pastel, 22” x 17” © Bernadette E. Kazmarski CAN THE SUBJECT of a painting communicate through his image? One of the dearest stories from any of my portraits is the one of Cooper, a...
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Rescue Story: The August Kitten
Augie, the August kitten. In the middle of the night during a July thunderstorm many years ago a couple awoke to hear what sounded like a baby crying outside, and noticed their two cats Percy and Ebi...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Trumpet and Jasper”
“Trumpet and Jasper”, pastel, 24″ x 12″, 1993 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski CATS CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE and steal your heart and change your life. These two cats came from anonymous places but filled a...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: A Portrait in Oranges
“Amaretto, Simon and Merlin”, pastel, 26″ x 19″, 1995 © B.E. Kazmarski DO YOU KNOW your veterinarian’s pets? I do, and early in my career had the honor of painting portraits of her cats and her dogs,...
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November Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “Buster Lookin’ At His Toes”
“Buster Lookin’ at His Toes”, watercolor, 4″ x 5″, 1995 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES THE CAT you least expect will steal your heart, and you don’t really realize that until years have gone by....
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“Great Rescues Day Book”, A Collection of My Portraits and Stories
Great Rescues Day Book, cover and two-page spread. If you enjoy my rescue stories and my artwork, you can have, or give as a gift, a year’s worth of my portraits and rescue stories in Great Rescues Day...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “A Wonderful Gift”
“A Wonderful Gift”, pastel, 12″ x 14″, 2010 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES A CAT has so many connections to other cats or people or circumstances or places, but then this Peaches’s life was...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Sooty”
“Sooty”, 1997, pastel, 11″ x 7″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T MATTER how much sentiment is attached to adopting a cat, how much people pay for a cat, or how beautiful or sweet it is,...
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A Great Rescue and a Commissioned Portrait: Bandit Stole His Daddy’s Heart
“Bandit”, pastel, 18″ x 14″, 2004 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES WE DON’T realize until years later that a series of odd circumstances has an intention beyond our control; often this involves the...
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: Holly on the Rocker
Holly on the Rocker, watercolor, 8″ x 12″, 2008 © B.E. Kazmarski A LITTLE WHITE LIE is sometimes what it takes to save an animal from a bad situation. Well, that and a convenient cereal box, but it all...
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A Great Rescue and a Commissioned Portrait: “Felix”, Big Kitty Love
“Felix”, 16″ x 23″, pastel, 2004 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski SOMETIMES PEOPLE START with purebred cats because it’s what they learned when young, or they met a cat—or dog or other pet—that they so loved...
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