KaySmithBrushworks

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Monday, November 4, 2024

5.5x8.5 watercolor on paper in Master's Touch sketchbook done last week of October, a natural still life found on my driveway. This was done for a WetCanvas online challenge featuring nuts. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Apple Buckets

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper. Foreground is layered with midtones and darks, different values and strokes of grasses, leaves, and twigs. More burnt sienna and quinacridone burnt orange added to shadow side of upright bucket with some splattering to indicate dings and dents. Also I widened the apple tree trunk on the right side and glazed the bark with quin burnt orange. Background leafy tree now has darker shadowed leaves on its left side. Distant tree line on far right was put in for depth, distance and balance. All in all am pleased with how this still life in a landscape turned out. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Abstract Hibiscus

15x22 watercolor just completed this week from combos of hibiscus flowers I had taken in the yard and at nurseries. Lots of color yet an exciting composition of wild abstraction make this floral a winner. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Friday, November 1, 2024

November

11x15 watercolor scene of a muddy country road in November. Fall leaves have been disappearing just as the warm days have; recent promise of rain add to the ambience of autumn with just a hint of colder weather to come. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Landmark Statue ~ #inktober2024 day 31

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Jumbo ~ #inktober2024 day 28

6x4 ink using black India ink applied with a wooden chopstick on sketchbook paper for day 28 for #inktober2024; the prompt was 'jumbo' so I decided that an elephant would be perfect to illustrate. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith