“Blending”, watercolor.
Over on my feline art sit, The Creative Cat, I post a daily sketch of my cats among other images, photos and informative articles and stories. The sketches began as a way for me to get a little practice each day, completed in the moment and posted that day. They’ve grown into quite the feature and all these images have become new products as framed art and on handmade and printed products. You can read more about my daily cat sketches in the article Muse Medallions and a Special Award in the CWA Communications Contest.
I love being able to send a piece of original artwork, knowing these images of my cats are off in someone’s home. I always have ideas for mats and frames while I’m working, and do the framing myself. Also, once an original has been purchased, it’s also added to the gallery of prints for sale in my Etsy shop.Above is “Blending” and below is “Clash of Titans“, both headed for the same home, someone who has purchased several other framed daily sketches.
“Clash of Titans”, pastel and charcoal.
Below is “Tonal Nap”, which went off to the same home as the two sketches above a few months ago.
“Tonal Nap”, pastel.
The photos document the mats and frames for future reference since prints of paintings often work well with the same mat and frame as the original—sometimes I like to put one together for myself.
Below, “Vigilant Nap”, came out just as I’d wanted, with two mats that coordinate with the paper and some of the colors and textures in the sketch, but it’s overall monochromatic.
You can also find “Vigilant Nap” as the November image in my 12 Sketches of Cats 2014 Fine Art Wall Calendar—read more below!
“Vigilant Nap”, charcoal.
“Their Faces to the Sun”, ink and watercolor.
“Their Faces in the Sun”, above, and “Blue Purple Cats”, below, made their way to the same home, one of our friends in Canada, who has also purchased a few other sketches.
“blue Purple Cats”, ink and watercolor.
Below, I deliver “Highlighted Silhouette” to a friend and customer who is Fromage and Cranberry‘s human—does Fromage think the sketch is her? Or another interloper house panther? And what does Cranberry think of a painting of a black cat in her home?
Fromage inspects the painting close up, which Cranberry inspects Fromage and the painting!
Framed daily sketches usually add up to between $100 and $150 which includes the sketch, the framing and the shipping. I choose the framing from all my samples here, and cut the mat and finish the framing myself in my studio. If you are interested in an original sketch or any other artwork, just send me a message. it’s difficult to post all the sketches I do on Etsy or elsewhere since there are so many, but I often try to anticipate the ones others will want to purchase, and I sometimes mat and frame the ones I like personally.
Prints of these sketches will now be available as well in my Etsy shop, and in addition to the image itself I’ve also posted a photo of the framed original as an idea for framing a print, and mentioned that cost as well, just to see how that works.
12 Sketches of Cats 2014 Wall Calendar
“12 Sketches of Cats 2014 Calendar”
If you’d like a few of my daily sketches but prefer to purchase prints, I have a deal for you. This calendar includes 14 images printed in archival inks on acid-free paper in a lovely calendar you can enjoy all year. Considering that I typically sell prints at this size and level of quality for $15.00 each, 14 prints would be $210.00. But this calendar, priced at $45.00, is a perfect idea if you want to purchase a number of prints, and $10.00 of each purchase is donated to a different feline rescue each month—right now it’s FosterCat.
I’ve always admired oversized “art calendars”, the ones where the art is foremost and the calendar just an incidental means of presenting it. Calendars are printed on quality text or cover stock and are only printed on one side of the page with plenty of clear space around the artwork because the image is intended to be framable with nothing printed on the back.
And so 12 Sketches of Cats is digitally printed in the same archival inks and acid-free natural 100# smooth cover stock I use for the digital art prints I sell. Each page is 11″ x 17″ so there is plenty of space to have the art at or near its native size with room for the name and information about the art with the calendar at the bottom. The calendar is spiral-bound at the top with a hole drilled just beneath the spiral so you display one page at a time.
In addition to keeping art near its native size I’ve also sized most of the artwork so it will easily fit a standard frame size. Some images, such as “Shades of Gray” and “World Cat” are smaller than the originals to fit the page. I chose sketches for popularity and narrowed them down for a variety of style and medium. All are in color but there is one bonus pencil sketch; no charcoal or ink sketches seemed to fit with the color art, so of course that might be a calendar of its own someday.
Read more about the 12 Sketches of Cats 2014 Fine Art Wall Calendar here.
Mimi manages things with the mat cutter.
Take a look at other new merchandise and featured artwork.
Once a week on Thursday I feature something new in my “shop”, whether that’s here on The Creative Cat, in my Etsy shop, on my main website or even at one of the bricks and mortar shops that carry my work.
Read about creating custom items
Find out more about creating custom items for your own home using the images you see here. Visit the “Ordering Custom Art” page to see samples and read bout how to order.
It’s all done under the close and careful supervision of my studio cats!
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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 using one in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of this image or a product including this image, check my Etsy shop or Fine Art America profile 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.
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