Downtown Frisco

10.25x9 charcoal using both hard and soft on sketchbook paper done the last weekend before December; ref courtesy another artist Gary Allen. I liked the tall telephone poles and lines towering above the cityscape buildings, cars, etc. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Storm Warning

14x10 watercolor on Stonehenge 140 lb hot press paper done over the past weekend, a scene down the road with heavy clouds gathering above while utility poles guard the area.
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Prairie Barn

6x7.25 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary country barn landscape done today.  Yesterday I did two separate pours of colors across a very wet support.  First orange trio of colors was a mix of organic vermilion, cadmium yellow, and raw umber (all sedimentary).  Second blue trio was Prussian, lamp black, and ultramarine blue poured across the still wet paper.  Pigments separated with some staining and others granulating in dark areas.  The barn and telephone poles were sketched on dry paper then painted with dry brush.
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Ranch Relics

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink line on Masters sketchbook done last weekend.  Distant rainstorm was added in far background and is appropriate for today's tornado watch, hail, and lightning skies.  An old hay wagon trailer sits in pieces in the foreground behind a rusty barbed wire fence, wheel, posts, and then telephone poles hold up lines in the middle ground.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Wyoming Territory

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over the weekend which was part of a WetCanvas challenge.  I challenged myself to paint a large sky using no references and a limited palette as seen here.  Paints:  Cadmium red and manganese blue on the sky.  Foreground is quinacridone gold, green gold, UB, quin burnt orange.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.