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

Porky - a redone painting

22x15 acrylic and ink over a failed watercolor of watermelons that just did not work. This pig art is featured in Chris Unwin's book The Artistic Touch 5. I took some of the lemon shapes in the watermelon 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. When we raised pigs and hogs on the farm they were often fed watermelons. COPYRIGHT 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.