Gulls Galore

6x12 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday for online weekend drawing event on WetCanvas.com; photo courtesy Valri in Florida.  I added more gulls to the horizontal composition for balance.  These shore birds are waiting for a hand out.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Spirit of the Sea (Gulls)

22x30 latex acrylic on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, painted in about 2 hours.  The photo ref was at a shopping mall featured on WetCanvas so I edited out the stores and placed these guys back on the beach where they belong.  Sketch was done with watersoluble colored pencil and 3 colors of Crayons, then paper wet both sides heavily, and acrylics added with a 1" sponge brush. I blended with my fingers and at the end splattered using dark brown mixed watercolor plus white acrylic.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Ibis

5x8 watercolor, colored pencils, and ink (Micron 01 pen) done today, a quick sketch from my white ibis photos taken in Florida last year.  The first group seen were a flock of them just walking down a residential street.  There are other color varieties of ibis birds.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Lookout Gull

12x6 watercolor done last week, brush only, so no pencil drawing or sketch first.  This fellow was from one of my Indian Rocks Beach photos taken in August last year.  I used a fairly limited palette of raw umber, UB, Coastal Fog, and indigo.  Support used:  Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

White Pelican

11x15 watercolor of a white pelican recently painted and featured on WetCanvas.  The background was a real challenge due to all the grasses.  Some areas were negatively painted but overall dark values set off the lightest lights of the bird's feathers.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Spirit of the Sea (gulls)

22x30 latex acrylic on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, painted today in about 2 hours.  The photo ref was at a shopping mall featured on WetCanvas so I edited out the stores and placed these guys back on the beach where they belong.  Sketch was done with watersoluble colored pencil and 3 colors of Crayons, then paper wet both sides heavily, and acrylics added with a 1" sponge brush. I blended with my fingers and at the end splattered using dark brown mixed watercolor plus white acrylic.