Lonely Blue Jay

8.5x5.5 watercolor over Winsor Newton 0.3 fineliner sepia pen in sketchbook 80 lb paper; done at first of August. Another artist provided the blue jay image that she had photographed. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Steller's Bluejay in Winter

6x4 watercolor on 140 lb Grumbacher paper cold press done over the weekend from photos of this pretty blue jay with snow around him for an abstract background. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Steller's Jay in Snow

5.5x8.5 watercolor sketched and painted last weekend after seeing this fellow foraging for food in the snowy mountains. I like the contrast of his dark brownish black head against the white. COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Bluejay at the Feeder

12x9 mixed media on Canson 140 lb cold press paper completed a few days ago, ref courtesy WetCanvas.com where the bird was featured in a timed 2 hour event.  A popular event every weekend an artist host will provide images for whoever wants to participate and they have a 2 hour time limit to select one and paint it.  I used a backing sheet of various marks in acrylic, ink, and watercolor, then sketched the bluejay.  Watercolor and Montana acrylic markers in yellows and blues were applied to the background for a unique abstract look.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Bluejay House

8x6 mixed media of Inktense pencils plus watercolor pencils by Derwent done this past weekend in Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Jaywalk ~ day 22 of 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

6x7.5 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper featured on day 22 of Leslie Saeta's popular biannual challenge.  Each artist participating pledges to do at least one painting per day.  Some who paint faster than others can complete more than that to have an extra entry for those days painting time is cut short.  In this scene I've added more tree limbs and branches and negative painting was  done. I also have this one showing on WetCanvas weekend drawing event with photo courtesy Robert Rongier of France; see his website HERE.Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2017.