Showing posts with label garden bulbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden bulbs. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2016

Dark & Dressy Daffodils

11x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper drawn yesterday and painted today partly wet in wet and wet on dry.  These white dressy beauties are blooming all over the place and with today's rain we may see more.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Luscious Lilies

11x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper drawn and painted for today's work, another floral from my never ending supply.  The pink is actually several colors side by side, what we call analogous colors:  Permanent rose, quinacridone violet, magenta, pink, coral; alizarin crimson, Grumbacher red, transparent pyrrol orange, Halloween orange, thioindigo violet.  Mixed greens are UB, Prussian, indigo, green gold along with quin gold, arylide, raw sienna, new gamboge.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Apricot Irises

11x7.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Langton paper, a demo begun yesterday for one of my art classes, then finished today.  This is a scan so colors appear more orange than they are.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Late October Pumpkin

8.5x5.5 watercolor in sketchbook 80 lb paper done last Tuesday while on a trip to New Mexico mountains. I've used White Nights paints f...