Odessa Sunflower - demo today

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper done today for the Odessa Texas Art Association live demo program.  I photographed the sunflower in 2003 in that town as Leada Wood and I were traveling for an art meeting; many other photos from that day have been painted but not this one.  About 1.5 hours was the time limit.  This is wet on dry using 1" flat sable brush and these pigments:  Quinacridones burnt orange and gold, Prussian, ultramarine and Bice blues, arylide and cadmium yellows, and new gamboge.  A very wet Blue Bice (American Journey) hue was the main background color.  As an opaque, it had to be thinner.  Note the two small lavender and brown shaded moths.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.