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Daily Sketch Reprise: Self-portrait With Kublai for Hug Your Cat Day
Self-portrait with Kublai, charcoal pencil on paper. One more cat hug on Hug Your Cat Day! This is Kublai, the cat who loved hugs, who gave hugs to everyone he met, and taught me to love hugs too! His...
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Vintage Photo: That Certain Black Cat, c. 1993
Kublai being silly on the landing. I turned around to see three black cats lazing about in the sun on the landing, and came around to a memory of another black cat in the sun on that landing, more than...
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Vintage Photo: Girl and Cat Meet Camera, 1983
Kublai rolls around in the sun in one of my first photos, ever. This photo is from the very first roll of film I shot with my Pentax K1000 in October 1983, as I wandered around with it pressed against...
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Awakening, A Special for Valentine’s Day
Awakening, matted and framed, linoleum block print © B.E. Kazmarski Quote reads: ” ‘Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.’–Anatole France. Dedicated to my prince and...
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Animal Sympathy Cards
“Lucy Helps to Make the Bed” Each time I send out a single or a set of sympathy cards I remember the cat pictured on the front, so glad to have shared my life with them for a while. I simply have the...
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Vintage Photo: Dinnertime for Nine, 1994
My household of nine cats enjoying dinner. My entire household of nine resident cats—and one is just out of range of this photo but you’ll see her below—enjoying dinner on the kitchen floor in February...
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Vintage Photo: My Studio Window, March 1995
Kublai on my studio windowsill. My first black cat, Kublai, sits on the windowsill in the sun in my studio, watching me work, sometime in March 1995. Seeing my cats on the windowsill of the room I...
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Those Large Original Paintings
“Peaches and Peonies”, pastel, 23″ x 16″, 2008 © B.E. Kazmarski For how much I write about Peaches and how much art she inspired, it’s hard to believe she was only with me for five years. Five years!...
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The Cats in My Garden
Cookie with Daffodils. Years ago, while I was still working in my day job, I also did a fair amount of freelancing in design, art and writing. One place I’d had a few short pieces published was Organic...
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Rescue Story: Something About the Day
Lakota and Emeraude enjoy the warm sunshine. June has always been a big month for me to rescue or accept cats to foster, and for a myriad of reasons. It’s true that, by June, kittens are abundant to...
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Vintage Photo: The First Cat Photo in This House, 1991
Kublai, my lighting director. Yes, it took me until the next year to photograph pretty much anything in my house, let alone any of my cats. I probably couldn’t find my camera in all the mess! But here...
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Sympathies and Memories
Winter Window, pastel, 8″ x 8″, 2002 © B.E. Kazmarski One of my customers, a feline-only veterinary hospital which has ordered from me since 2010 when I began selling animal sympathy cards wholesale,...
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“Awakening”, Special for Valentine’s Day
“Awakening”, matted and framed, linoleum block print © Bernadette E. Kazmarski Quote reads: ” ‘Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.’–Anatole France. Dedicated to my...
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Vintage Photo: Dinnertime for Nine, 1994
My household of nine cats enjoying dinner. My entire household of nine resident cats—and one is just out of range of this photo but you’ll see her below—enjoying dinner on the kitchen floor in February...
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Vintage Photos: A Morning in Late Winter, 1994
One of the photos of Kublai I’ve always intended to paint. No, it’s a different black cat in a photo from 22 years ago this month. It’s Kublai enjoying the sun on the landing where nearly all cats...
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The Cats in My Garden
Cookie with Daffodils. Years ago, while I was still working in my day job, I also did a fair amount of freelancing in design, art and writing. One place I’d had a few short pieces published was Organic...
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Vintage Photo: My Studio Window, Spring 1995
Kublai on my studio windowsill. My first black cat, Kublai, sits on the windowsill in the sun in my studio, watching me work, sometime in March or April 1995. Seeing my cats on the windowsill of the...
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Vintage Photo: The First Cat Photo in This House, 1991
Kublai, my lighting director. Yes, it took me until the next year to photograph pretty much anything in my house, let alone any of my cats. I probably couldn’t find my camera in all the mess! But here...
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The Artist’s Life: The Splendor of Autumn
Hilltop Farm, 10″ x 7″ pastel, 1996 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski Last week I looked up at the clouds and thought, “They look just like those clouds… .” It may have been on the 20th anniversary of the day...
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“Awakening”, Special for Valentine’s Day
“Awakening”, matted and framed, linoleum block print © Bernadette E. Kazmarski Quote reads: ” ‘Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.’–Anatole France. Dedicated to my...
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