Monday, March 18, 2024

Dry Desert Icons

30x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted earlier in the month. I have painted this southwest landscape mission more than once and in different ways. Seagulls in acrylic are on the reverse side. With the imaginary saguaro cactus flanking the tall mission bell tower, the bottom part beckons you to come on inside. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Heehaw Donkeys

12x9 watercolor on Bristol 300 series 100 lb paper done last month, another donkey painting in my series using my older photos from a farm south of town. They seem to be saying HeeHaw! as loud as possible and are such clowns of the animal world. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Couch Cat

8x5.5 mixed media using ink on acrylic background in new junk journal done last month. The journal is a nonfiction book written in the 40s and the ref is another artist's cat. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Friday, March 15, 2024

Excited Hummer

5x7 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done last month using several refs I shot last summer in New Mexico. I used White Nights paints. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Eye of the Horse

22x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted last month, the second or third time to paint this handsome flea-bitten grey of my brother's. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Glad Hummer

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch premium 140 lb cold press paper painted last month, another gladiolus or gladioli, but with a hummingbird. I've used White Nights paints working wet on dry. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

So Glad

8x8 watercolor floral on Masters Touch painted in February as part of class exercises with gladioli or gladiolus blooms. This one was an imaginary white flower I have added Sennelier colors to beginning with darks first. Also I used Daniel Smith's Moonglow. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Dry Desert Icons

30x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted earlier in the month. I have painted this southwest landscape mission more ...