Quiet Cardinal 1

6x8.5 watercolor and ink (Uniball elite pen) on pink tinted Color-Sketch paper done in 2015 as a Sketchbook Skool exercise. They sent an email with instructions. You select an object and first draw it without looking at your paper. I used a photo of one of our backyard male cardinals. I got his back too high where it hits his crown and right foot is unattached to his body. Background is made up abstract forms and colors. We were asked to post our results on social media afterwards. Second bird was done almost identically but you're allowed three quick glances and that bird has been sold. Third bird gets five quick glances. Fourth bird you can have ten quick glances and are given two more minutes on details (that one is on blue tinted paper as I ran out of pink). A fun endeavor! I'm pretty sure my favorite will be this one as it was sketched so much looser. COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith

New Blue Jeans

22x15 mixed media on Arches 140 lb cold press paper, a watermedia collage revamped for the last assignment in Polishing course with Sketchbook Skool.  We were to take an old figure sketch and add elements to create a new composition.  This has gift wrap, ink stamped tissue (rooster), collaged text and old watercolor painting cutouts, and pencil text across upper half.  Acrylic stamping was added at the end.  My brush made a blue heart on her left cheek by accident and I liked it so it stays.  A white paper doily that had blue and purple dye on it was collaged to her blouse center; front is white acrylic painted over another lacy stencil doily.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.