July Pronghorn

7x9.5 watercolor over orange colored pencil sketch done at the first of the month while still in Colorado. I saw some pronghorns on the trip and they are so colorful against all the green grasses or plains where they are in abundance. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

June Pronghorn

6x8 watercolor using White Nights paints done last week during a 2 day art show. I used Hahnemuhle toned grey 95 lb paper and a few pronghorn antelope refs. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Pronghorn Resting

5x7 watercolor and ink line using Micron 01 pen on vintage book text done last week.  This antelope is having himself a rest from his hunting.  We saw so many of these in the plains between western Texas and eastern New Mexico.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2019

Pronghorn Antelope

8.5x5.5 mixed media on paper.  These animals are seen dashing across the flat grassland between Plains, TX and Tatum, NM, as well as west Texas.  I sketched with Uniball Vision Elite ink pen first, then added watercolor, followed by Montana acrylic markers.  Lastly black India ink was applied to a few select linear spots for emphasis. Scientific name of Antilocapra americana translated is "American antelope goat" but the deer-like pronghorn is neither.  With its branched horns instead of antlers that it sheds (the only animal that does), it is the fastest, running in 20 foot bounds up to 60 miles per hour.  Unlike the cheetah, the pronghorn can run for hours and can spot predators up to 4 miles away with its keen eyesight.  Life expectancy is 9-10 years for this North American hoofed mammal.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Pronghorn Portrait

8.5x5.5 mixed media on paper done last week while in the mountains.  These animals are seen dashing across the flat grassland between Plains, TX and Tatum, NM.  I sketched with Uniball Vision Elite ink pen first, then added watercolor, followed by Montana acrylic markers.  Lastly black India ink was appled to a few select linear spots for emphasis. Scientific name of Antilocapra americana
translated is "American antelope goat" but the deer-like pronghorn is neither.  With its branched horns instead of antlers that it sheds (the only animal that does), it is the fastest, running in 20 foot bounds up to 60 miles per hour.  Unlike the cheetah, the pronghorn can run for hours and can spot predators up to 4 miles away with its keen eyesight.  Life expectancy is 9-10 years for this North American hoofed mammal.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Pronghorn Antelope

8.5x11 ink on paper sketch that I've cropped here of a pair of pronghorn antelope photographed between Plains, TX and Tatum, NM. They usually run at the sight of humans interrupting their day in the brushy pasture or grassland.  I used a Pitt pen in grey and dark grey to sketch them.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Buff Cochin Bantam Rooster plus an ink sketch for #InkTober

 9x12 watercolor done today on 140 lb cold press paper, as part of current monthly Watermedia challenge on WetCanvas.  Photo courtesy of Kara, the host, and this is her rooster.

Ink sketch of two pronghorn antelope seen out in west Texas using Pitt pens on sketchbook paper for #InkTober worldwide challenge in which artists must do a work in ink once a day for all of October.
Images COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.