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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 05/08/2026

A big juicy studio oil painting after doing so many tiny plein air landscape gouache paintings was so satisfying.

24”x18” Oil painting by poster Sarahjane Bernhisel of an orange with most of its leaves attached on a light blue fabric dropcloth

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 07/05/2026

Finished up this little study of a Monterey cypress I started a few weeks ago at McLaren Park in San Francisco

Photo of an easel with a 5x7” gouache plein air painting of a pathway and greenery and towering Monterey cypress trees, with a crescent moon behind.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 20/03/2026

Some recent gouache paintings from Venice!

Small impressionist gouache painting of three parked gondolas on Venice’s Grand Canal

A painting easel set up with an unfinished painting of Murano, Italy and some colorful boats and houses

A painting easel set up with an unfinished painting of Venice, Italy. The painting features a bridge and orange boat, which can be seem beyond the easel, in addition to a gondola that is passing by

A painting easel set up with an unfinished painting of the Salute on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Behind the easel is a very foggy image of a magnificent domed building

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 07/10/2025

It’s so good!! My husband’s sun and mercury are in that decan and literally when we met he used to be a blacksmith and jack of all trades machinist/metallurgist and now works in prototype manufacturing and engineering for large companies. We laughed at this

Screenshot of transcript from Kira’s podcast Threads of Fate on Gemini I decan: “And it reminds me of the Agrippa quote for this Decan, which is, a man in whose hand is a rod, and he is, as it were, serving another, and it granteth wisdom and the knowledge of numbers, and arts in which there is no profit.
Sure, Mercury loves.
I'm like, I love that Agrippa was like, and you're going to be broke. Excuse me.”

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 29/09/2025

Had an amazing painting retreat with some close friends in Carmel and Monterey with our instructor Mike Hernandez! Really happy with how mine turned out. Learned so much.

Two plein air landscape paintings in gouache featuring scenery from the Monterey Coast of California. Mostly of rocky cliffs and crashing waves beneath.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 26/08/2025

I didn’t witness this but there were peppers EVERYWHERE because I know my cat Sundae was startled by the broom falling while she was investigating the peppers

Photo of a tiled floor with an overturned colander and hot red chile peppers strewn about and a broom knocked over, too

Sundae the Calico cat, the reasons the peppers were strewn across the floor

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 16/07/2025

Urns for pet ashes are INSANELY expensive, wtf? Just ended up getting a vintage keepsake box that is way cuter. Heihei was too majestic to be memorialized with something basic

A beautiful fluffy tabby sunning herself in a shop window

Porcelain keepsake box in the shape of a cat with hand painted Japanese floral motifs

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 03/07/2025

Aw this oil painting just found a home today 🥹

An image of an 8x8inch painting of a burst pomegranate on a light background with three arils around it.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 15/05/2025

The @baymadeoakland.bsky.social website just got a glow-up along with our storefront www.baymadeoakland.com

Photograph of local bay area made products on a green background. Includes kuali salsa macha, wound care balm from ardent goods, honey from urban beekeeper, McEvoy ranch olive oil lotion, dandelion dark chocolate bar, and a fizzy bath salt from heliotrope sf, all items for purchase from oakland store Bay-Made

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 14/05/2025

Yesss my stickers came in! Get em at @baymadeoakland.bsky.social or with every etsy purchase!

Three packs of holographic rainbow vinyl stickers in bags: a black crowned night heron with the word “Oakland” beneath it, a calico cat with ice cream in a sundae dish, and an angry rainbow wearing cloud high heels and a sun-crown. All illustrated by the original poster

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 05/05/2025

I’ve been wanting to make her a sticker for almost 5 years. SOON

A mockup of a holographic vinyl sticker with an illustration of a cartoon rainbow (with an angry face and arms crossed) as a drag queen. Her crown is the sun and her heels are clouds. Art is drawn by the original poster, Sarahjane Bernhisel.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 28/04/2025

How do i block posters of babytalk cats on this site omfg ENOUGH

Text: “mommy getted bod newes
abot hers grannyma. I nevar meetad dis hoom but mommy lovf hers. And I lov mine grannyma whoms vary sade too nowe. Sew I snoggle mommy.” As if spoken by a cat.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 17/04/2025

Decided to illustrate my own starter kit! Saw a few artists and friends do this and loved the idea.

Illustration of a toy action figure “starter kit” of the artist, Sarahjane Bernhisel. Kit includes an action figure of Sarahjane and comes with 3 cats and a dog, big sunglasses, a paintbrush, a thumbs-up, Chacos sandals, and a library card. No AI! Drawn to look like a packaged toy with a hanger cut-out for display.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 10/04/2025

Just got my daybreak easel! This and my tripod weigh <7lbs, hoping i can keep my entire kit including solvents, brushes, and paint under 10lbs so I can paint everywhere! #pleinair

An indoor photo of an assembled daybreak easel, which is a palette and panel holder made of wood which attaches to a camera tripod for a lightweight plein air painting setup

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 07/04/2025

If you see this, quote with your night/dark art!

Nocturne illustration of a backlit barn owl roosting while its chicks are in a hole in a tree, all lit by the moon

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 31/03/2025

This calla lily popped up in my yard as a weed and I let it grow and the largest stalk was four feet high and the blossom was 7” across. Had to draw it #illustration #callalily

Stylized Illustration of a large calla lily plant with two large blossoms and sorrel and grass by the base of the stems, on a dark background.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 12/03/2025

Black crowned night heron, my favorite weird lil Oakland guys

Illustration of a black crowned night heron, the city bird of Oakland, CA

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 07/03/2025

My nephew sliding the skeleton! He was going 70mph

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 02/03/2025

Oh i love painting gouache landscapes and then adding a lil red colored pencil on top MMm #painting

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 26/02/2025

Waiting for AT&T to install new internet at the shop. They told me between 8:30-9:30am. Sundae is annoyed I am here so early

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 19/02/2025

Steller’s Jay. Once heard a car alarm outside my Oakland apartment, going up and down the street. Thought someone was being towed. Nah, just one of these guys mimicking

Digitally drawn illustration of a Steller’s Jay, a California native corvid with distinct blue and black striped plumage and a black crested head

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 19/02/2025

Mariposa/Sego lily. Love these guys. Would love to screen print this sometime

Digital painting of the three-petaled mariposa lily, or sego lily.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 17/02/2025

Aw remember when I had hope the rest of this show was going to be good? Womp womp. Should I check out House of the Dragon?

Digital illustration of Game of Thrones character Daenerys and her dragon Drogon, destruction behind them

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 17/02/2025

“Nary a Braincell Betwixt” 2023 12x12” gouache and colored pencil on panel, sealed with cold wax. For the Bay Area’s Walt Disney Family Museum’s show “Pawsibilities Unleashed: A Pet Portrait Exhibition”. Such a fun show to be a part of.

Square painting of three cats on a blue background, making a loose triangle with their poses. From left to right is a white cat reclining with blue eyes and gray markings, a calico cat with yellow eyes wearing a bandana, and a tabby cat with green eyes looking up.

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines from the Bay-Made shop cat Sundae

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Sarahjane Bernhisel 📯 @sjbernhiselart.com · 14/02/2025

Bleh, haven’t done a painting for myself since November. I’ve been so burnt out. I have panels prepped, even! #painting #art

Oil painting of wilted roses and cherries

Oil painting of a whole pomegranate fruit with part of its branch and leaves attached

Oil painting of two stems of hummingbird flowers in a round jar 2/3rds filled with water

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