Exhibit: My Home Town
“Pear Trees on Main Street”, pastel, 12″ x 10″, 2003 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
My Home Town
AN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS & SKETCHES
Thursday July 30, 2009, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Babyface’s Carnegie Grill, 36 East Main Street, Carnegie
I love the look of a street lined with houses and trees, a variety of storefronts or someone’s laundry hanging in the back yard; people making their little bit or space unique. I’ve been entering these works in our annual art show, ”Carnegie Painted”, since the year 2000. I’ll have 24 pieces on the wall plus prints and notecards of those and more. Peruse the walls and see if you can identify the views of these familiar streets and places.
Well, those were the days. This was my 2009 annual exhibit, another event in July. Carnegie Painted was an annual exhibit hosted for ten years featuring paintings and sketches of Carnegie, encouraging artists to come and sketch en plein air. I entered at least two if not four images in the show each year for ten years, and in 2009 I selected the originals that hadn’t sold and some of my favorites as prints and put together this exhibit, and also chose 12 images to print as note cards.
Because I’ve sketched so much around Carnegie, these are some of my favorites because I remember not only the scene but the moment, stopping for 15 or 20 minutes on a walk down to the bank to do a sketch, in all seasons. Some were done from photos, but that’s because you can’t always stand and sketch in a snow squall, or standing in the middle of the street.
I still have just a few originals but all are available as prints. The most popular are available in my Etsy shop, so click click this link to find all that’s available on Etsy. Below is a gallery of all the images in the exhibit.
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Monongahela Fog
Monongahela Fog
It could have been a scene from a century ago at the J&L Steel plant along the Monongahela River, but it’s just a foggy October morning.
A spectacularly foggy morning, the type that only autumn provides. This is a bend in the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, the bit of a bridge you see is the Birmingham Bridge from the South Side Flats to the Boulevard of the Allies in the Lower Hill/Uptown/South Oakland. The steam rises from a concrete plant on Second Avenue, on the river’s edge, where the J&L Plant once stood; in the distance you see the first of the buildings in Oakland leading to Carlow University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. In this fog, this could have been taken decades ago, representing the smog from the mills. The mills are gone, the air and the rivers are relatively clean, but the colleges, the neighborhoods, the essence of Pittsburgh is still there in the rolling fog of an October morning.
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Monongahela Fog
Monongahela Fog
It could have been a scene from a century ago at the J&L Steel plant along the Monongahela River, but it’s just a foggy October morning.
A spectacularly foggy morning, the type that only autumn provides. This is a bend in the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, the bit of a bridge you see is the Birmingham Bridge from the South Side Flats to the Boulevard of the Allies in the Lower Hill/Uptown/South Oakland. The steam rises from a concrete plant on Second Avenue, on the river’s edge, where the J&L Plant once stood; in the distance you see the first of the buildings in Oakland leading to Carlow University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. In this fog, this could have been taken decades ago, representing the smog from the mills. The mills are gone, the air and the rivers are relatively clean, but the colleges, the neighborhoods, the essence of Pittsburgh is still there in the rolling fog of an October morning.
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For a print of any photo, visit “purchasing” for availability and terms. For photos of lots of black cats and other cats—and even some birds as I first published this post there—visit The Creative Cat.
Monongahela Fog
Monongahela Fog
A spectacularly foggy morning, the type that only autumn provides. This is a bend in the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, the bit of a bridge you see is the Birmingham Bridge from the South Side Flats to the Boulevard of the Allies in the Lower Hill/Uptown/South Oakland. The steam rises from a concrete plant on Second Avenue, on the river’s edge, where the J&L Plant once stood; in the distance you see the first of the buildings in Oakland leading to Carlow University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. In this fog, this could have been taken decades ago, representing the smog from the mills. The mills are gone, the air and the rivers are relatively clean, but the colleges, the neighborhoods, the essence of Pittsburgh is still there in the rolling fog of an October morning.
Trumpets Greet the Dawn
Little Trumpets
They may be only 3/64 of an inch across but they are making a joyful noise for me.
They are the flowers on my lemon verbena, whose leaves smell heavenly all day and night at this time of the year, inviting me to afternoon tea.
Red Dawn, 2011
Red Dawn
Even though a sunny day was forecast, I knew a storm was coming because the dawn was blood red, almost shocking when the light hit my window.
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight;
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Or farmers or anyone whose livelihood depends on the weather.
I missed the absolute sunrise just in the time it took me to get my camera and get upstairs to the bathroom window where I have this view.
Early Dawn
Early Dawn
Truly stunning, showing through the trees, the first light was vivid red. I thought for sure it meant it would rain today, but just a welcome overcast and cool.
Dawn, Through the Trees
Dawn Light
The dawn light flickers through the trees into my northeast window as the sun rose on yesterday’s red dawn.
Red Dawn
Red Dawn
Even though a sunny day was forecast, I knew a storm was coming because the dawn was blood red, almost shocking when the light hit my window.
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight;
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Or farmers or anyone whose livelihood depends on the weather.
I missed the absolute sunrise just in the time it took me to get my camera and get upstairs to the bathroom window where I have this view.
Zero Degrees
Zero Degrees
I guess the weather is the news this weekend, and I have to agree when it was zero here at dawn when I took this photo.
I’ve always liked the smoke trails coming out of chimneys, and while the light was quickly changing I was lucky that nearly everyone’s furnace was running at the same time, even a few of the buildings on Main Street. The haze in the distance is characteristic of frozen vapor that fills the air as the sun rises on a very, very cold morning.
Morning Haze
I can barely see the building on Main Street, just four streets away, or the hills across the way from me in the early morning haze on these hot days.
Remember This in August
Cold Water
Not quite frozen though the temperature was minus 1 degree when I walked to the post office and bank first thing this morning. Chartiers Creek was rimmed with ice and frozen over in the shallower areas, all was still and quiet except the slowly flowing water; even the hardy ducks were keeping in their nests until later. Bright, clear and sunny, but sometimes those mornings are the coldest.
When I make this walk this coming summer I’ll remember this frozen morning.
Zero Degrees
Zero Degrees
I guess the weather is the news this weekend, and I have to agree when it was zero here at dawn when I took this photo.
I’ve always liked the smoke trails coming out of chimneys, and while the light was quickly changing I was lucky that nearly everyone’s furnace was running at the same time, even a few of the buildings on Main Street. The haze in the distance is characteristic of frozen vapor that fills the air as the sun rises on a very, very cold morning.
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