Spring Secrets tulips

12x6 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper done this afternoon quickly with a large brush on dry paper.  For the loose purple tulips this first day of Spring, I mixed indigo with quinacridone magenta. I only had 20 minutes to paint and this was the result.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Tulips and Red Table

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper painted several years ago from a floral still life I set up in the studio.  Tulips are silk, not real, stuck in an old grey urn, and the antique table that belonged to my grandmother I painted bright red.  You can see diagonal mini-blind shadows falling across the composition.  This work is SOLD.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.