Basket Bouquet

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted last month for the second time, an imaginary bunch of flowers in a basket, mostly calla lilies and tulips. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Signs of Spring (oil)

18x24 oil on canvas of pink geraniums in white wicker chair, a simple porch floral still life scene set up which I also did in watercolor, a recent post.  The silk flowers were placed into a heavy pale blue basket and morning sun gave nice colorful cast shadows on the chair back.  I still have the chair but it is spray painted lilac.  This work is SOLD.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Next Step detail of WIP

Here's the next step, adding colors underneath the basket.  I've used quinacridone gold and burnt orange together with a bit of carbazole violet in this detail.

Lilac Chair

22x15 watercolor of a lilac basket perched on an old pale blue wooden garden chair.  This is the second time I've painted the subject and have also done it twice using geraniums and a different chair.  Garden subjects are so much fun to paint and depict a carefree day.

It Has Been a Year!

We are celebrating that it has been one year since Nita built my beautiful blog! Thanks to all my followers who keep growing in numbers. Thanks to her for all her hard work.

Here's a little info about the above work:

20x16 Arches CP 140 lb, Daniel Smith paints. I took this terrible watercolor done a few years ago of a woman holding a basket of flowers, and added flower shapes cut out of gift wrap, photos, and cocktail napkins glued on as collage. Her petticoat stencil was done with a paper lacy placemat. It is still bad but better than before. I shouldn't have put a red flower so close to her leg and might still cover it with another color so it reads better. Have more fun ideas brewing in this warped brain for me to do and you to enjoy looking at.