Giraffes Grazing

7x10 mixed watermedia collage on Canson mixed media paper. Drawn with an orange Magic colored pencil, then a fast underpainting with transparent pyrrol orange/quinacridone gold watercolors was done. When dry, I added brown and quin burnt orange patterns with some green, then the bg foliage. After that dried I used brown torn tissue paper that had small squares and a giftwrap paper featuring colored circles, adhered with matte medium. Lastly, I used a blue Magic pencil to make calligraphy marks in bg trees and bushes. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026