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ther decided they wanted to give her mother a portrait of her mother s dog and two cats as a mother s day gift they all shared the same love for their animal companions and shadow the dog was growing older all the animals were rescues adopted from shelters shadow s face shadow was black with a lot of mahogany in his fur the two went about sneaking photographs from her mother and mailing them to me the very first portrait i had done for them was a watercolor of his cat dusty and the second a pastel of her cat deville but for this portrait they chose watercolor casey s face clear stripes and yellow eyes most of my portraits are pastel but i enjoy the break when i the commission is a different medium i looked forward to it studying the photos and visualizing the colors and the brushes i d use for fur and stripes and animal eyes and noses seeing the brush strokes on the watercolor paper ralph deep orange and white and a little timid they gave her the portrait in my studio when portraits are gifts i am rarely present for the giving but in this case they decided to present it here because they wanted her mother to meet me she actually had no idea why she was coming to this stranger s house just appreciating the day out with her daughter and son in law i had the framed portrait on my easel in the corner covered with a silk scarf i keep for the occasion this was several years ago and i now work upstairs but i have always kept an easel in the corner of my office downstairs the room intended to be a living room into which you enter for presentation and display of current work at the right time of day you can see right into the room so i ve always been careful when people were coming to visit their portraits that they couldn t see them before they even came into my house deville pastel 10 x 12 2005 b e kazmarski they introduced me and my household of cats and we talked about our pets while we had snacks and iced tea then i slipped into the kitchen and they took over leading their mother to the easel and letting her know the purpose of the visit pulling the scarf off the portrait so she could see shadow casey and ralph i re entered the room it was a wonderful moment to share with the three of them they were sure her mother would love a portrait of her companions and i knew if her mother was anything like the couple i had gotten to know there was no better mother s day gift not only recognizing and sharing her mother s love for her pets but also the gift the daughter had obviously inherited from her mother a loving and generous heart and compassion for people and animals detail of deville a mother s day special and father s day too did your parents pass on to you a love of animals did they decide one day you needed an animal companion of your own starting you on a lifelong path of sharing your days with cats and dogs and birds and bunnies and ferrets and any other animal that came along thank those people who gave you this gift and i m loosely defining mother and father because sometimes the person who shared their love of animals with you was an aunt or uncle or grandparent or even a neighbor who rescued cats or dogs in everyone s life is at least one special person who shared a love of animals and in that person s life there is often an animal companion who is or was very special to them i m offering 10 off the purchase of a portrait certificate or a commissioned portrait that is booked between now and mother s day and father s day as well portraits take up to four weeks especially with framing and then shipping but we can work things out with certificates and portraits that are done some time in the next two months about commissioned portrait gift certificates sample commissioned portrait certificate the certificate itself is 8 5 x 11 and features a collage of portrait images with the recipient s and giver s names printed on parchment cover stock the whole thing is packaged in a pocket folder and includes a brochure a letter from me to the recipient and several business cards the certificate package can be easily mailed or wrapped as a gift and shipped directly to your recipient i can also make it downloadable if you re in a hurry portrait certificates are a minimum of 125 00 because that is the minimum cost of a portrait certificates are good for up to one year after issue mother s day discounts in my etsy shop use mothersportrait10 to receive 10 off the purchase of a portrait certificate or of the cost of a commissioned portrait we will discuss the portrait and i will give you an estimate use mothersday10 to receive 10 off the purchase of mother s day gifts which may include a portrait certificate or of the cost of a commissioned portrait father s day discounts in my etsy shop use fathersportrait10 to receive 10 off the purchase of a portrait certificate or of the cost of a commissioned portrait we will discuss the portrait and i will give you an estimate use fathersday10 to receive 10 off the purchase of mother s day gifts which may include a portrait certificate or of the cost of a commissioned portrait take a look at other portraits and read other stories read articles here on the creative cat featuring current and past commissioned portraits read about how i create commissioned portraits purchase a gift certificate for a commissioned portrait visit my website to see portraits of my cats commissioned cats commissioned dogs people and a demonstration of how i put a portrait together from photos commissioned cat portraits commissioned dog portraits all images used on this site are copyrighted to bernadette e kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission please ask if you are interested in purchasing one as a print or to use in a print or internet publication share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading kitties and curtains and watercolors posted april 25 2012 author bernadette filed under animal artwork cat artwork cat painting cats commissioned portrait feline artwork great rescues calendar and gift book great rescues families pet portrait portrait watercolor tags cat artwork cat painting commissioned portrait pet portrait portrait set of portraits watercolor portraits watercolors of cats 5 comments buster and kitty watercolor 4 x 5 1995 b e kazmarski back when i was just beginning in animal portraiture a friend and fellow cat rescuer showed me photos of her cats buster and kitty and offered me prints in case i d ever like to create paintings from any of them though i have difficulty just keeping up with my own household i won t turn down photos of any cats especially those in her lovely victorian themed apartment cats looking out windows has always been a favorite theme of mine add the delicacy of sheer ruffled curtains and i m totally hooked it s the whole scene i love the moment even the silly one of just seeing butts and tails on the windowsill and shadowed silhouettes through the curtain those memories are special and even if we re looking at others cats they still call to mind our own cats at the same moments i knew her cats and her apartment as she knew my cats and my home we worked together and were also cat sitters for each other and while my visit to her house was fairly simple with her two and then three cats i had nine cats for her to feed and pet and entertain in my house she and her husband purchased a home and as i pondered what would be an appropriate housewarming gift for a friend i remembered the photos especially those two of the kitties on the windowsills i d do a portrait i remembered how she had loved the traditional features of that apartment the oak parquet floors big rooms and high ceilings that wide traditional molding on the windows darkened with age and of course she loved her cats so the combination of the two was sure to be a winner but which photo the photo with both cats didn t show their faces and while i do like unconventional poses and scenes for portraits i didn t feel that was enough the other was a typical posture for buster with his legs stretched out and looking at his toes and while i pondered how to fit kitty in there from other photos i decided i d rather not i d do them both just two little paintings that solved it buster lookin at his toes watercolor 4 x 5 1995 b e kazmarski i loved the sheer curtain and the traditional wooden windowsill but rather than my usual pastel i had been visualizing them in watercolor all along i was pretty new to watercolor then just about two years into it and not too many paintings yet but i d been studying quite a bit of other artists work i could picture how i d render the harder shadows and highlights on the wood and knew it would carry the gauzy shadows on the curtain the soft shadows on the walls would be a challenge but the cats would be a joy meeting my favorite subject in a different medium for once like sharing a new experience with a friend they are matted and framed individually but with the same mats and frames unlike most other portraits i feature you are seeing these at about the actual size they were painted about the kitties kitty was a rather large and imperious long haired black kitty they d adopted from a shelter and oh how i wanted a long haired black kitty after meeting him my black kitty kublai was the love of my life but that didn t mean i couldn t have a crush on another even with kitty s well cattitude he was okay he never swatted me but then i d been well trained by sally my white long haired kitty in the fine art of knowing when happy happy purr purr turned into i m totally done with this right now buster was but one kitten from many litters born to a cat in a trailer park who simply was never spayed the fact that a neighbor was setting out antifreeze for them to drink neither inspired the cat s owner to get the cat fixed nor to keep them all indoors and safe buster s mom and dad had recently lost a kitten they d adopted to feline leukemia and buster s dad wanting to save at least one kitten from death by antifreeze and help ease the grief of the loss chose one tiny black and white kitten to take home at first he was ordered to take the kitten back the loss was too soon but within hours reconsidering the possible fate of the little guy buster s mom told him to go back and get him and buster is also the january kitty in my great rescues calendar and gift book i hadn t seen his mom for years when i began the book and wanted to use his portrait then realized my photos from that era weren t up to print quality and i d have to rephotograph it i had the chance to look her up and visit again and yes i do have that photo of buster and ginger they are on the list take a look at other portraits and read other stories read articles here on the creative cat featuring current and past commissioned portraits read about how i create commissioned portraits purchase a gift certificate for a commissioned portrait visit my website to see portraits of my cats commissioned cats commissioned dogs people and a demonstration of how i put a portrait together from photos commissioned cat portraits commissioned dog portraits all images used on this site are copyrighted to bernadette e kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission please ask if you are interested in purchasing one as a print or to use in a print or internet publication share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading scarlett and melanie posted april 18 2012 author bernadette filed under animal artwork cat artwork cat painting cats commissioned portrait feline artwork pencil pet portrait portrait tags cat artwork cat painting commissioned portrait pencil portrait of two cats pet portrait portrait 6 comments scarlett and melanie pencil 18 x 30 pencil b e kazmarski a full color rendering that covers the entire ground paper canvas etc is often what we think of when we envision a portrait but less formal portraits in drawing media have been classics for centuries as well sometimes they are preferred or they may simply be more affordable or as in the case of gray tabby sisters scarlett and melanie the medium might also be most appropriate my second commissioned portrait ever this portrait was in the first group of commissioned portraits way way back at my beginnings so the photo quality is not as good as it could be there is no shadow left and right it s only that the portrait is so wide at 30 that i couldn t avoid shadows left and right in those days and still today i take the final photos of a portrait right before i frame it which is sometimes right before i hand it over to the customer in the days before digital when we had to wait for film to come back and in this early time when i wasn t the most experienced photographer of art i had to take the best guess when i photographed and hope i d gotten it that major detail aside scarlett and melanie were young gray tabby sisters the only two children of a young couple who adored them completely i met the couple at a cat show where they were stocking up on toys and treats for their girls and i was on my maiden voyage in promoting my portraiture to the feline community at that point showing mostly my own personal portraits and a few of those early drawings i d framed deciding to use pencil for the portrait moses in the sun pencil b e kazmarski i had a gray tabby named moses who i d sketched in pencil and while the full color nearly full size and realistic portraits caught their eye and brought them in to talk to me a portrait of their girls how exciting they had to have one it was the little pencil sketch of moses that really convinced them plus they wanted a fairly large portrait to go over their fireplace and had the idea of a long and narrow one to fill the space in full color with two subjects and then framing that would be rather expensive even in those days i have always charged less for monochromatic drawing media such as pencil charcoal and ink simply because while i may spend as much time in the planning as i do for a color portrait i spend much less time in the actual rendering sleeping beauty my sally pencil b e kazmarski my love for drawing in pencil i was also secretly glad because i have always been most confident in pencil i often refer to it here as my first and favorite medium because i began drawing with my mother ...