Royal Rooster

8.5x5.5 watercolor using White Nights paints done last of December in a WetCanvas weekend drawing event 2 hour challenge. This is painted on Canson 117 lb paper. The reference that we were given was that of the entire rooster but I've cropped most of the bird's body to focus on its head and neck. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Retro Rooster collage

10 x 14.75 mixed media (watercolor, acrylics, newspaper, napkins, catalog pages, ink) I composed over a failed geranium watercolor. The rooster head and neck were from a former failed barnyard painting with him and 2 hens that did not quite work. The hens I cut out also and adhered to an old shack scene called "Chicken Ranch", that should still be on this blog. His purple legs just kill me; feathers in front are from newspaper photos of old wood. It is a conglomeration of elements with a whole lot of country style and was fun to make. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

March Rooster

6x6 watercolor painted today in new Master's Touch sketchbook, 80 lb paper, a quickie farm animal or bird painting. I used minimal pencil lines for this proud fowl fellow and mostly a #1 rigger/script liner brush, wet on dry. COPYRIGHT 2025 Kay Smith

A Rowdy Rooster

6x6 acrylics and ink using STA 0.8 pen on Master's Touch 80 lb sketchbook paper done at end of August; ref courtesy another artist. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Eye of the Rooster

9x6 watercolor on Winsor & Newton 140 lb cold press paper, done earlier in the month using one of many rooster and chicken photo references. With this fellow, I've cropped him closely to better focus on his eye and comb. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Chicken Yard

9x12 mixed media on Strathmore Bristol board 300 series 100 lb paper using black Tombow brush pens to put in the darkest values first. When dry watercolor and Brusho were added for this chicken poultry scene on the farm. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Crow Master

11x8.5 watercolor of a regal rooster preparing to crow for the farm and neighbors if any. I painted this wet on dry using Daniel Smith paints on 140 lb cold press paper. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Cooped Up Rooster

8x8 watercolor on Masters Premium wc paper 140 lb cold press done last week from one of my black and white photo references. So the feather colors are all imaginary as well as flamboyant. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Rooster Time

5.5x8.5 watercolor on Masters paper in sketchbook done over this past weekend using an old rooster reference photo. I liked the dark green and indigo blue colors in his tail feathers. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Rowdy Rooster

8.5x6 watercolor/ink line on ColorSketch sketchbook yellow tinted paper done today. This is for another WetCanvas online challenge where participants have 2 hours to do their art. It was sketched with STA Lictin 0.3 pen followed by paint. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Designer Birds II

12.25x23.75 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, a comical set of three roosters still life I drew from a ceramic model in my kitchen.  Background was left white to further emphasize the birds design.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Farm Chickens

6x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today, an imaginary farm scene with chickens and a rooster pecking about.  The fowl were sketched from memory and I made an abstract background/backdrop for them in this colorful country barnyard painting.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Retro Rooster

10 x 14.75 mixed media (watercolor, acrylics, newspaper, napkins, catalog pages, ink) I composed over a failed geranium watercolor. The rooster head and neck were from a former failed barnyard painting with him and two hens that did not quite work. His purple legs just kill me; feathers in front are from newspaper photos of old wood.  It is a conglomeration of elements with a whole lot of country style and was fun to make.
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.

Big Red Rooster

12x12 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas done today that was my studio class demo.  This whimsical rooster was drawn with black felt tip marker onto clean white gessoed canvas, then various colors of torn paper were adhered with matte medium.  Tomorrow it will be finished with gloss medium varnish of several coats.  No photo references used.
COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith           Email:   1971ks@att.net to purchase via PayPal           Cost:   $295

Rooster in pen & ink

9x6 using Pigma Micron 01 pen on Canson watercolor paper done this afternoon using one of my black & white rooster photos of a close up view.  This fellow looks quite menacing in a profile.  One of my neighbors is having rooster comb injections in her knee, which prompted me thinking about sketching one of the fine feathered fowl.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Tyler Rooster

17.5x13 watercolor on gessoed matboard finished today.  Drawn with charcoal pencil from a taxidermist model I found in a Tyler, TX antique store in 2009, am just getting around to painting it.  Largely brown and burnt sienna feathers covered the fellow's body.  I photographed him as he was perched on a tall furniture piece so this angle was interesting as he looks quizzical.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

White Rooster

22x15 watercolor vignette on 140 lb cold press paper, an earlier work that is now SOLD.  This white rooster was named Snowball and belonged to friends who allowed me to shoot photos of him strutting around their place.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2016.

Proud Rooster

6x6 watercolor and ink on Masters paper; sketched with Pigma Micron 01 black ink technical pen done today.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.