Radiant Rooster

5x6 mixed media on paper, another weekend drawing event on WetCanvas done last part of September. For this proud poultry fellow I used multicolored pencils, watercolor (White Nights), ink (Grabie 03 pen), and markers. It is painted on Canson 117 lb cold press paper. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Mother Hen

11x8.5 watercolor on paper, Canson 90 lb paper for mixed media sketchbook, done last of April. This imaginary hen is a quick study of the mechanics of being a chicken and a mother hen as well. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Chicken Ranch

15x22 watercolor collage on 140 lb Arches paper; chickens are collage cut from one failed painting on top of really bad old wooden shack painting to make a new scene. It is meant to be a humorous piece from two 'dogs'.  Moral of the story: Never throw away a bad painting. You can always recycle it or paint on the back side.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2018

Mad Rooster

10.25x9 watercolor and ink (Uniball Vision Elite pen) on sketchbook, quickly sketched last night then painted today.  This mad rooster was one of the featured refs on WetCanvas in the All Media Art Events forum/Weekend Drawing Event.  Participants are given 2 hours to choose an image then render it.  My ink sketch in 20 minutes is shown below.

COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Gladys Girl chicken

5.5x8.5 watercolor over mechanical pencil drawing done over the weekend of another artist's chicken named Gladys.  Sadly she said the hen is no longer with us.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Crow Master rooster

11x8.5 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, drawn and painted over the weekend for an online exercise with WetCanvas! Using my iPad, I flipped the white rooster image then used a summer filter to make him more colorful with vivid yellow gold and gamboge feathers.  Blue Bice by American Journey are the opaque turquoise blue areas for cool touches in a warm temperature painting.  No masking was used for his tiny feathers above his eye.  The larger the wattle and comb, the more females he can attract.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Personal Artistic Checks from CheckAdvantage!

Another watercolor of chickens, as reproduced on Check Advantage artistic designed checks and address labels.  More selections are now online with this Wisconsin company who does amazing reproductions! To see more of my exciting printed fine art visit this link:
http://new.checkadvantage.com/kay-smith-checks
All my check designs are copyright Kay Smith 2013.

Tyson Farms Hens and Rooster

20x16 watercolor of a rooster and his hens by their chicken coop; this work is SOLD.  I used one of many poultry photos taken at my friend David's country farm.  They look so scared, initially its title was "Terror at Tyson Farms" as they might have been hearing they were taking a trip to market.
COPYRIGHT image 2013 Kay Smith.