Harvest Crows

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper painted previously while on a mountains trip. Plentiful crows with their loud caw sounds are common, and they are vert smart birds. Love to see them around Halloween, too. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Proud Crow

9x6.5 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, another crow in an ongoing series of the black birds and their habits and habitats. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Parking Lot Birds

7.5x5 watercolor with Moleskine sketchbook done in February while out of town.  It was part of a week assignment during Sketchbook Skool so I selected the ordinary black birds so prevalent in all areas, especially parking lots.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Nevermore Ravens

11x15 watercolor of several different raven poses, inspired by my favorite poet Edgar Allan Poe.  I have posted this image here a few years ago and wanted to see it again these few days between Halloween and December which he mentioned in his poem "The Raven". My friends and family don't know it, but I had memorized his 1845 haunting melancholy verse and it remains one of the best in literature.