Out of Service (factory)

12x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done yesterday.  This deserted factory building scene is interesting with all its many levels and I've featured it on WetCanvas in their contemporary forum challenge.  My intention was to render it in a more basic abstract way but am still turned on by realism.  The original photo only shows dark buildings in shadow so here I've tried to spice it up with color.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Birds on Wires

Here is my one hour demo lesson done yesterday morning for the West TX Art Guild in Colorado City, Texas.  I used two photos of birds on phone line wires right outside my studio door. It is painted on Kilimanjaro watercolor 140 lb paper and is 15x22.  WTAG had a very nice turnout and I did sell a small scarlet macaw parrot painting.  My demo was held at Carolyn Walker's studio next door to Leada Wood's Studio Twenty, off Interstate 20.  This was my first time to paint insulators; one could get quite creative with the large sky!
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.