Marching Elephant

7x9 Tombow brush pens using portrait palette set in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper, done last month while out of town. After the watersoluble ink was in, I used a rigger brush and water to blend the colors somewhat of the marching elephant. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Elephant Eyes - WIP to finished

Elephant Eyes 24x18 watercolor, finished late today and ready to go! This was a fun one to do and I hope to watch as seen in the work in progress (WIP) steps below.

Detail of right eye and right tusk.  I used indigo blue and wetly dropped in quin burnt orange, manganese blue, UB, along with Peachy Keen by Cheap Joe's Art Stuff (American Journey paints).

Right tusk detail to show the amount of shading done with the blues plus QBO pigments.

Detail of his left tusk with color added, a glaze of quin gold, letting indigo mix into wet area underneath for shadow tones.

 

View of entire piece with masking tape removed from both tusks, which we know are white but not to leave them untouched...Right shoulder is a mix of Peachy Keen with lines of UB put in fairly wet.  More lines added for textural wrinkles and folds. His left eye needs more work!

More darks added to his right ear fold shadow.  Small lines put in for cracks and folds of his hide.

His left side is worked on down to end of paper.  The only background will be our right mid-to lower side which I'll do as a dust storm, and only have to look outside for a model for blowing sand.
Images COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Elephant WIP continued

 More work was done on his left eye using a mix of Coastal Fog, Coffee with Cream, indigo, quin burnt orange on dry paper.

 Same colors here but with manganese blue added along with carbazole violet to do the entire left ear.

Detail horizontal view of upper forehead and beginning of trunk.  I've used Halloween Orange also here to bring a warm color in.  More to follow later.  Time to post today's demo in Snyder, TX.