Sunday, October 4, 2026

Zoo Elephants

9x12 watercolor with walnut ink on Canson 140 lb cold press paper; other colors used were raw umber and Payne's grey. Sketch done with Staedtler 0.3 pigment liner pen in black. This limited palette I think captured the elephant hide hues well and walnut ink provided the dusty clouds. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026
By -
Labels: , , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Late October Pumpkin

8.5x5.5 watercolor in sketchbook 80 lb paper done last Tuesday while on a trip to New Mexico mountains. I've used White Nights paints f...

  • Red-Winged Blackbird on Cattails
    12x4.75 watercolor and ink on old ledger paper done a few days ago.  I drew the bird with a black Tombow brush pen then added watercolor, ...
  • Gentle Giant Elephant
    20x16 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas started yesterday (see the first phase posted below) then finished up today.  Using various hea...
  • 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...