8x8 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper painted a couple of days ago, still trying out the new wc paper. This was done wet in wet also and the colors still sink into the tooth too much. Sorry yesterday's post was absent due to no Internet connection. I'll be trying another floral wet on dry to see if the paper improves.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
Badger Hiding
6x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over this past weekend. Painting a badger was one of the prompts on the Facebook page of Watercolor Animals. After researching the wildlife online and getting an idea of face, head and ears, I sketched this guy hiding behind a large tree, then added colorful leaves and patterning throughout.
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
Midnight Hollyhocks
8x8 watercolor on Italia 140 lb. cold press paper done yesterday from some photos taken at one of the casinos in Ruidoso, NM, where the hollyhocks are still in bloom. Love the black hollyhocks and thought they'd look super with a coral background, a permanent rose and orange mix.
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
Spirit of the Sea (Gulls)
22x30 latex acrylic on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, painted in about 2 hours. The photo ref was at a shopping mall featured
on WetCanvas so I edited out the stores and placed these guys back on
the beach where they belong. Sketch was done with watersoluble colored
pencil and 3 colors of Crayons, then paper wet both sides heavily, and
acrylics added with a 1" sponge brush. I blended with my fingers and at
the end splattered using dark brown mixed watercolor plus white acrylic.
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Cat Smelling Flowers
6x6 ink sketch and watercolor using Micron 01 Pigma pen on Masters paper.
This white cat is seemingly in heaven sniffing the spring blossoms.
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Hedge Hogs
7x9.5 watercolor and ink (Micron 01 pen) on Ecosystem sketchbook done a few days ago for another online challenge, a Facebook Watercolor Animals page, and this was the prompt. Badgers are next so stay tuned.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Milk Cow Blues
11x15 watercolor that is a past work of a Jersey cow saying hello and rubbing her head on old fence post. I am trying to paint more landscapes and this farm image just happened to
feature a milk cow. Others are grazing on a sunny day in the distance.
Learning how to milk one of these lovely ladies was a real chore
growing up.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Spanish Town
14x11 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press completed today, another town or cityscape looser than the previous one. This has more shadows and just rained in this imaginary scene as seen in the street reflections.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith
Monday, July 22, 2019
Siamese Eyes
11x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, a cat pet portrait of the
handsome Ari. Ari belonged to fellow painter Robert in Arkansas and Ari had passed away in his sleep. He was a dead ringer for my Siamese
Jezebel. May they both RIP.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Downtown Doors
10.25x9 watercolor and ink on paper done in 2016 from an older photograph I
shot in downtown Big Spring. Using Lamy Safari pen and grey Noodler's
ink I got the two doors centered then added windows, wood trim, then
bricks. These doors face west and ground floor of the old building was
an antique store with living quarters upstairs. Walls were painted a
pale warm beige unlike the painting showing reddish brown, and no flower
pots or plants exist. This same building houses the former Alberto's Crystal Cafe
to its east side on 2nd Street.
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
Dancing Cosmos
7.25x5.25 watercolor done last week, sketching these cosmos blooms from life in pencil then adding paint on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper.
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Friday, July 19, 2019
July Geraniums
6.25x7.5 alcohol inks on paper done last week, a mix of 3 colors to make and ink floral abstract design from memory.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Orange Tabby Looking Back
10.25x9 watercolor over graphite pencil sketch completed today for another online challenge. I love orange or ginger tabby cats and have not had one in many years. This one is looking back and something, but what? Another animal, a human, some type of activity requiring his attention.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Resting Cow
5.5x8 watercolor on Strathmore Visual Journal for mixed media sketched in pencil and painted last night as part of an online challenge. Ref courtesy WetCanvas. This Brahman cow looks at peace with herself as she rests on the grass.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Sparrow on Fence with Hydrangeas
12x9 watercolor on Canson Montval 140 lb cold press paper/Daniel Smith
paints. I worked from a black and white print and made up the
lovely hydrangeas below the barbed wire fence he is on. Background is
nothing more than mixing the colors out on my palette into a grey mess,
then applying with very wet 1" flat brush.
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Copyright Kay Smith 2019.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Buffalo Skull
A buffalo skull done in Strathmore Visual Journal for mixed media 5.5x8
finished this afternoon. Beginning with very wet watercolors I laid in
red and black first yesterday. On dry paper today sketched with Artist's Loft
watercolor colored pencils then added water to blend those. A few
regular colored pencils were added for accents, making this a partial vignette, not
adding all the blanket patterns. Photo courtesy Hud/WetCanvas. The skull was a gift to Hud in Montana from his Nam buddy, a Lakota Sioux.
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Sunday, July 14, 2019
Doing Nothing Kitty vignette
12x18 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper, painted
wet on dry in a direct manner. This young kitty is lounging in the
grass on his back, doing nothing but being lazy on a hot summer day in a vignette composition.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith.
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Fishermen
9.5x7 colored pencils on paper done last weekend for a WetCanvas online challenge where artists have 2 hours to select an image then do a painting. I chose colored pencils as I am taking Sketchbook Skool's online klass about using the pencils and lettering. These guys seemed happy with their catch of the day.
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Friday, July 12, 2019
Backlit Kitten
8.75 x 5.75 watercolor pet portrait on Strathmore 140 lb cold press
paper; Daniel Smith paints, a daily painting completed earlier. I have taken lots of photos of cats in windows backlit by the
morning sun. No masking was used to highlight white hair or whiskers.
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
Wild Purple Roses
8.5x5 mixed media on paper card begun with various alcohol inks. No pattern excited me until I took out a white gel pen and began doing line work around the shapes to form rose blooms, stems, and leaves. Some collage can be seen lower right in this fairly abstracted floral.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Blue Barn Hen
5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink line on Masters sketchbook done for
another online event. I used
Lictin .10 pen in black to sketch the hen and barn wood. Ref courtesy Kay M/WetCanvas.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Border Town
14x10 watercolor on Stonehenge 140 lb hot press paper, an imaginary
scene done Sunday while in the southwest on a brief trip. The hot sun
is a major player in these border towns along with the dust and a lot
of people out shopping.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith
Monday, July 8, 2019
Dalmations Playing Fetch
8.5x5.5 watercolor and Micron 01 pen on Masters sketchbook done yesterday, another in my playing dogs series. These two have a stick and are running along in shallow beach water. "Labs Playing Fetch" was the first one of similar composition and that one is sold a few years ago.
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Sunday, July 7, 2019
Woman in Sunglasses
10.25x9 watercolor pencils by Staedtler in sketchbook for another Sketchbook Skool exercise using colored pencils. We were to use complementary colors in our work for the assignment and do it very quickly, so this was under 30 minutes from a model.
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Saturday, July 6, 2019
Lilies and Ribbons
4x6 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done a few days ago of yellow and orange tiger lilies. The ribbons were part of an earlier design that flopped. A white background was left in place.
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Friday, July 5, 2019
Lion Power
7x9.5 watercolor colored pencils in Ecosystem sketchbook done yesterday from an online ref for a WetCanvas challenge in watermedia. I used Artist's Loft brand of pencils.
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Thursday, July 4, 2019
Red Sunflowers and Fruit
5x6 watercolor on 140 lb Strathmore paper cold press done today from several references. Red, white and blue are present for 4th of July along with an old white metal pitcher and small fruit bowl. The sunflowers were grown by me several years ago.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Bluebonnet Blitz
22x15 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb cold press paper finished today from an earlier painting reference. The Texas state flower can be seen in all its blue glory each spring along roadways, grasslands or pastures, and the rolling terrain of the hill country.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Crazy Pink Chihuahua
8.5x6 watercolor and Pigma Micron 01 pen of a crazy chihuahua, painted wildly one weekend on Color Sketch paper. No reference used and a different color palette, not local color.
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COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith
Monday, July 1, 2019
French Bulldog in Sunglasses
8.5x5.5 watercolor on paper done yesterday of a black French bulldog out on a sunny day; the red sunglasses are providing him with a cool look. Ref unknown.
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