Dance of Poppies

Dance of Poppies 9x5.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper painted yesterday, a redo of an earlier poppy painting that sold and was featured on a calendar. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Poppy Poetry

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper painted this afternoon using only a #38 round brush (no pencil drawing) and totally imaginary.  With spritzing and using lots of water I came up with this poetic arrangement of poppies swaying in the pre-Spring winds.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Sparkling Poppies

11x6 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper that was used as a backing sheet for larger works; it has acrylic marker on it as well as watercolor.  Yesterday when I painted this it was a quick pencil sketch then adding warm colors such as Grumbacher red, transparent pyrrol orange, Halloween orange, permanent rose, Taylor's pink flamingo, quinacridone coral, and gamboge to poppy petals.  Splatters were already on the marked paper.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Poppy Pretense

15x5.5 watercolor and black India ink on Saunders 300 lb cold press paper done today.  With large splashes of quinacridone coral, transparent pyrrol orange, Grumbacher red, and alizarin crimson I made blobs that are pretending to be poppies with your imagination.  A bit of ink line delineates petals, blooms, and stems and I accidentally sloshed some of it onto the background and it cannot be removed.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Dizzy Poppies

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary red poppy garden scene done yesterday on a rainy dark day.  I was experimenting on a new brand of paper bought at Michael's and used Daniel Smith colors of quinacridone coral, permanent rose, quinacridone violet, indigo, quinacridone gold/burnt orange, Prussian blue & ultramarine, transparent pyrrol orange, green gold; Da Vinci arylide yellow, alizarin crimson; Grumbacher red; American Journey Halloween orange.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.