Thursday, February 18, 2016

Wyoming Territory

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over the weekend which was part of a WetCanvas challenge.  I challenged myself to paint a large sky using no references and a limited palette as seen here.  Paints:  Cadmium red and manganese blue on the sky.  Foreground is quinacridone gold, green gold, UB, quin burnt orange.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

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