Sunflower Fantasy

9x12 watercolor imaginary sunflower floral using plastic wrap pressed onto wet paint and let dry. Negative painting was done for this unusual design. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Kinky Sunflower

12x9 watercolor over ink line (Micron 01 pen) on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper in mixed media journal done over the past weekend.  Deciding on a warm color scheme I used the following exercise where you choose a color then paint three shapes with it of small, medium, and large using the paint color only once.  Mix some together if you have to and you can use 1-2 cool accents.  I did not include any patterning using a gold felt tip marker (for warm themed work, silver for cool) but might add later.  There were more yellows, golds, oranges and reds in the paint drawer than I thought I had.  Inspiration photo and initial ink sketch are below.

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June Sunflower Petals

10x10 alcohol inks and India ink on paper done last week, an imaginary abstract sunflower basking in the heat.
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Bizarre Sunflower

8x8 alcohol inks on white paper done last week, another abstract exercise using various warm and cool colors for the background.  Gold tones dominate while a partial orange center displays a hot center of the swirling petals.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.