Long Red Barn and Cows

6x6 watercolor using White Nights paints in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done last week. You can see two Holstein cows out in the grass in this farm landscape scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Two Holstein Cows

9.5x7 mixed media on paper painted today over a realistic pencil sketch. India ink was used with a chopstick to apply color to the black areas.  Watercolor for eyes, noses, the land, and shadows. Montana markers in blue and green used for sky and grass.  Number 23 is my birthday number.  Touches of white gouache put in eyes.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Cow Conference

5x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today as part of an animals forum online monthly challenge.  These three Holsteins appear to be in conference out in the pasture.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Holy Holsteins

22x30 acrylics and wax crayon on watercolor paper 140 lb cold press, a recent redo of a former version that did not quite make the cut, or cud in this case.   I added red to the background buildings to indicate barns and a turquoise for the sky.  Eye colors were changed for these three comical clowns of the barnyard contemporary cows work.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Rainy Skies

15x11 watercolor painted today, a low horizon imaginary landscape with contented cows in foreground and red barn and outbuildings in distant background.  Overhead are low grey menacing clouds threatening rain under blue skies.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Artistic Cows

3.5x6 watercolor and ink on The Artist's Magazine insert card done today quickly as I had to get ready for our local art show.  These two Holstein cows are peacefully grazing and gazing at the farm.  A Micron 01 pen was used to sketch them.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Moovie Stars cows

30x22 acrylic, ink, Caran d'Ache watersoluble crayon, and wax crayon on 140 lb cold press paper, one of my reworked ones from a pink floral now morphed into Holstein cows.  This work won an award at Southwestern Watercolor Society show a few years ago for creativity, and is now SOLD.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Dairy Farm Cows

6x6 watercolor and Micron 01 ink drawing on Masters paper, drawn this morning then painted later on for my daily work.  Love any black and white animals; such fun to paint high contrast, and these imaginary Holsteins are no exception.  For the sky, I'm using a new paint Cheap Joe's makes, Blue Bice, American Journey brand that I just got and sure do like its cool shades.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Curious Cow

9x10 watercolor of a very curious Holstein cow, an imaginary scene done today on Canson 140 lb paper.
Image is copyright 2013 Kay Smith.

Holy Cow!

22x30 acrylic over failed cherub painting, hence the title. This is a WetCanvas! challenge to paint in a style or colors you're not used to, so it was quite difficult with large flat shapes. A Netherlands cow of Connie van Winssen was the ref used and it was in the middle of a green field with a city skyline behind, so I enlarged it and took out all the rest.

Moovie Stars - Reworked Acrylic/Mixed Media

This is the bad floral from a few years ago ABOVE.

30x22 inches, a pair of Holstein cows, cropped, drawn over existing latex acrylic pink/white floral with black Tombow brush pen. Next I put in black using ink. With Caran D'Ache watersoluble crayons I scribbled blues for the sky and greens for grass under their feet, adding water, letting dry, reapplying crayons. This is at the 2 hour mark. I left the abstract floral stems/leaves in foreground but might have to glaze over them later. I kind of like them as the whole composition is unusual and strange. They are ready for Hollywood!