A Flamingo Pool

9x6 colored pencils and watercolor pencils on paper, a quick sketch done last week in which water was added to the color and a small amount of watercolor White Nights paints. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Tropical Flamingo

12x9 acrylics and ink on Canson for mixed media paper done last week for another exercise in abstract online tutorials by Yvette St. Amant. I used my own refs to get a right look to the flamingo's beak. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Flamingo vignette

7x9.5 watercolor on paper done yesterday from a larger photo of flamingos.  I isolated one bird and sketched him closer up for a vignette.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Feisty Flamingo

14x11 watercolor on Yupo synthetic paper sketched with #1 rigger brush on Friday then painted yesterday quickly to let the colors run and meld together.  This bird is from one of my many flamingo photos and has been painted before but not on Yupo.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Flamingo Pool

11x8.5 watercolor on paper from Crescent sketchbook done today, a quick pencil sketch from a WetCanvas weekend drawing event hosted by Susan.  I've edited out other flamingos and left the pool a murky muddy brown.  Background foliage was largely palm leaves and other plants around their water.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Flirty Flamingos - reworked watercolor

After getting more email inquiries about this painting I thought I'd post it again here, and that will feed into Daily Painters website where most of my work sells.  It is 15x22 watercolor over a failed geranium painting. In the old composition, I'd done geraniums and practiced negative painting leaves.  It was so totally horrible no artist in their right mind would show it.  Either they'd paint on the back or throw in the nearest bin.  But I love to remake and save lost sinners, hence this attempt at a redesign.  It did win Best of Show at one of our Big Spring Art Association exhibits at Howard College.  This fun scene is one of many of my old dogs redone into something else, reworked or recycled to make a better piece of art.  Currently I'm gathering information to submit to North Light books on my rescued paintings.  It is thrilling to note that one of them, Baby Callas, collection Terry and Jan Hansen, won a point with the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies as did another, Alter Egos, collection John D. Jones.  The latter won my 5th and final point with WFWS.