15x22 watercolor just in time for Halloween night on Sinister Street. This old dilapidated frame house was an image in WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event, courtesy of Dana. You're allowed 2 hours to draw and/or paint your composition and post your progress. Total time was about 3 hours for me. At the 2 hour mark I'd not done all the background trees nor the foreground grasses and weeds. HAPPY HALLOWEEN night, everybody!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Amarillo Sunflowers-They're Fading Fast!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Halloween Harvest Wagon
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time to Paint an Abstract or Two
30x22 mixed watermedia entitled "Rush Hour". This next week am going to paint in Lamesa, TX (where I was born during a sandstorm) and we'll be doing abstracts. Lots of fun but nobody around this area except my mother likes them nor wants to own them. As has been stated before on this blog, I've been taking some of them and making other art, using them as underpaintings.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
More Daily Painting: Cottontail
15x11 watercolor, loosely painted wet in wet of the common jackrabbit, also known as a cottontail. These small animals abound in southwest brushy pastures and love to feed upon young cotton plants trying to grow. When I was growing up in west Texas our favorite pasttime was to go rabbit hunting before the coyotes got them.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Roses are Red
15x11 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb paper, completed this past weekend in New Mexico. Drawn from a single red silk rose, I created all these various views and made up the leaves and rosebuds. Painting petal by petal, I sanded colored pencil shavings into the wet areas for texture. Each area leaf or petal is one application only of watercolor and are not repeated glazes.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Saddle Up!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Happy Trails
11x15 watercolor, copyright 2010 Kay Smith, of my brother's backside. I changed the horse's color to white with grey tail instead of sorrel. This painting was done while in my New Mexico mountain studio cabin a few days ago.
Remember the theme song Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had for their TV show about happy trails?
After Vernita Bridges-Hoyt invited me to be part of her new blog about the Chisum or Chisholm Trail I realized I'd gotten away from doing much western art. So get ready! More is coming. To view Nita's new blog go to chisolmtrailart.blogspot.com/
Remember the theme song Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had for their TV show about happy trails?
After Vernita Bridges-Hoyt invited me to be part of her new blog about the Chisum or Chisholm Trail I realized I'd gotten away from doing much western art. So get ready! More is coming. To view Nita's new blog go to chisolmtrailart.blogspot.com/
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Butterfly Bride
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Red Hot Chile Ristras
Been looking at all sorts of peppers here in New Mexico as I've been madly painting for a week now in the cool mountains of Ruidoso. Known as the Playground of the Southwest to me it is a chance to connect to nature and enjoy pines, extraordinary light, and delicious cuisine. Art and antiques abound here in this fun place. Since Monday I've completed 3 paintings so will show them to you soon. Stay tuned.
Monday, October 11, 2010
South of the Border
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Reworked Abstract Zebra
22x30 acrylic abstract done a few years ago and used as the basis for a new work as seen below:
30x22 mixed media finished piece, Zebra Vibration, done today. I used a black permanent marker to draw the animal's shape and stripes, then black ink for those. Lastly I added opaque and transparent watercolor to the background, plus gouache. Crayons as wax resists you can see clearly now.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Rust in Peace
11x15 watercolor on Arches 140 lb hot press paper finished today. After pouring 3 primary colors (Winsor Newton Alizarin, Antwerp, Arylide) onto dry paper, I spritzed with water to blend, let dry, then developed the subject matter. Negative painting done to suggest branches, limbs, and twigs as well as autumn leaves. The old jalopy is a heap of rust with a story to tell.
(Ref courtesy WetCanvas)
(Ref courtesy WetCanvas)
Monday, October 4, 2010
Nassau Fisherboy
15x22 watercolor on Arches 140 lb hot press paper from my old photo of first Bahamas trip in the 80s. See the photo here as posted on WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event currently running.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Gaudy an Angel collage
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