Saturday, October 3, 2015

October Gargoyle

6x8.5 watercolor on pale yellow ColorSketch paper with a background wash underpainting first of various neutral palette 'mud'...worked from a black and white photo copy only to try and get the values just right.  Paints used:  Ultramarine blue, raw umber, sepia, quinacridone burnt orange and gold.  Today's work is the current monthly challenge on the watercolor studio forum of WetCanvas; photo courtesy of Doug Elliot (administrator).  Who doesn't love a gargoyle in October? These scary icons of architecture always amaze me.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.
By -
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Woven Flowers of Passion

15x22 work is actually two identically painted scenes of pink roses in front of a house. The original was ho-hum boring so a few years late...

  • Woven Strawberry - watercolor weaving how to do it
    15x11 watercolor of a very large strawberry painted twice on separate 140 lb cold press Kilimanjaro paper, then cut one into horizontal st...
  • Little Gnome
    9x3 mixed media on 140 lb cold press wc paper done today. After pencil sketching the little gnome toy I put in white crayon marks for icy t...
  • Late Fall Freeze
    7x9 mixed media in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper using white crayon and White Nights watercolors done last weekend. No reference use...