Monday, June 20, 2016

Fruit Plate

22x15 watercolor on hot press 140 lb paper that I first coated with white gouache, then painted.  This gives a nice softness to the colors in the fruit still life of pears, strawberries and blueberry muffins on antique china plates.  Before the pear paint dried, I color-sanded colored pencil into it using fine grit sandpaper.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

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1 comment:

Kate said...

I love the soft colors of this. I noticed that you said that you sanded colored pencils in this? Did I understand that correctly? I never thought of that. Oh, and I loved, loved the fish from maybe today (June 28, 2016).

June 28, 2016 at 7:36 PM

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