Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Gourmet Giraffe

11x15 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, drawn and painted today from one of my many zoo animal photos.  After painting a bunch of them yesterday I just wanted to continue on exploring the subject.  Painted wet in wet I used Daniel Smith paints.  This fellow is busy trying to discern which tree leaves are the most tasty so he is a true gourmet.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

He makes me smile, Kay!

Nancy Standlee said...

Very nice. I've been trying to draw them. Hard!

Kay Smith said...

Thanks Darla and Nancy! Yes, I agree they are not easy to draw.

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