Pig Party

6x6.25 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done over the past weekend (ref courtesy WetCanvas) on a piece of a painting I'd cut up. The old painting was pink square tiles in a still life. Pigs look fun in the mud with the pink colors. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Piglets

11x15 watercolor on Bienfang 140 lb cold press paper, an earlier work featuring two young pigs. Ref courtesy Li Newton for the 6-15-16 WetCanvas weekend drawing event. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Pig Brothers

5.25x8.25 watersoluble colored pencils and ink line done today in my junk journal as part of a WetCanvas Watermedia monthly challenge.  These two litter mates were too cute to pass up, sharing secrets, and wondering what is for dinner.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2018.

Piglets

11x15 watercolor on Bienfang 140 lb cold press paper done a few days ago for WetCanvas weekend drawing event.  Host Li Newton provided 16 photos and we had a 2 hour time limit to choose, draw, and complete a painting.  This was finished in about 1.5 hours.  I love the one piglet in their food bowl not letting the others eat; he was 'hogging' it to pig out for lunch.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Sow and Piglets

15x22 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Italia Acquerello paper, using small figurines as models.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Pork Chops pigs

15x22 watercolor of three pigs in their pen playing in the mud just waiting for dinner time.  This was painted a few years ago on 140 lb cold press paper, wet in wet.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Bacon Bits - Pigs in Love

20x22 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper of two pigs in love, getting ready for Valentine's Day this next Thursday.  For this one, I put stretched cotton gauze down over wet paint, then touched the edges with various blues and purples.  When dry those were picked up and it left the tiny marks. There are pig shapes in the background and a few hearts.  See if you can find them.

Pigs Collage demo "Hamming it Up!"

Final work done this afternoon in about an hour, adding dollar store gift wrap roses, pearls, and lace to the foreground and to their bodies at random.  I like the pearls before swine idea.  I used Derwent Matisse Background in pale beige (a misnomer because it is pale yellow) gesso to smooth that area then brushed some in front.  Oil pastel accents were added as well in this mixed watermedia piece.

Demo Pigs on collaged paper step 3

Last night I painted the pigs using Turner's gouache and got this far around midnight.  You can see the phone book pages through the paint. The guy on the far left now has some interesting ears! Love the mud on the far right rascal's snout.  I'm having way too much fun now to stop.  But did put in part of the foreground lower right.

Demo Pigs on Prepared Paper

This is a half sheet Arches 140 lb hot press paper with 4 phone book pages adhered to its surface with half matte medium and half water mix, apply several strips 1" masking tape firmly, wait 10 minutes then pull off.  Now this is ready when dry for a charcoal drawing.  I've done figures on this prepared paper but this time will do pigs.

 From my smaller ink sketch done Friday I've freehanded drawn 3 piglets.  I really love the character on the far right.  I'll use gouache to paint them with a 1" brush.

Sketch: The Three Little Pigs

My daily sketch this afternoon measures 8.5x11 on white drawing paper using Tombow black and grey brush pens.  Little pigs had been playing in the mud and enjoying their looking for mischief.  Tomorrow will paint a larger work from this quick draw.

Sausage Patty

12x9 watercolor of the other white meat in its daffodil environment, a whimsical work that usually gets me smiling.  Usually after doing a tight realistic painting I will do a fun one such as this imaginary scene on Strathmore paper.  I used Daniel Smith paints.

Pork Chops

15x22 watercolor of three pigs in their pen playing in the mud just waiting for dinner time.

Porky Pig

22x15 acrylic and ink over a failed watercolor of watermelons that just did not work well.  This pig is a few years old.  I took some of the lemon shapes in the fruit still life and made pig rears as you can see in the background, and also did negative painting where needed. The hardest part was his large head as I wanted some of the watermelon to show yet needed basically one color in the shape.  On the farm, we used to feed the pigs watermelon so this just fit the bill.

Piggin' Out on Lime Snowcones

8.5x11 colored pencil on Bienfang 50 lb paper of three pigs who had been caught eating snowcones and the far right guy had too many lime flavored ones.