Meadow Storm

5x7.5 watercolor in Moleskine for watercolor 140 lb cold press book done last week for another online challenge in WetCanvas. I enjoyed the bright green sunlit grassy meadow in between the trees with the contrasting angry clouds above. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Wintertime Trees

7x3.25 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today, an imaginary winter scene and evergreen trees in the snow.  A broken area of frozen water is in the foreground while birds fly overhead.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Afternoon Trees

5x5 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done a few days ago as an exercise in shadows and distance.  These three poplar trees are imaginary in this country summer landscape and I've varied the warm and cool tones throughout the leaves and shadows.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Trees in Abstract Abyss

7.75x7.75 alcohol inks on white foamcore done today with the background put in first using Cloudy Blue and Eggplant.  Next I added Sunbright Yellow (where green trees are) and it did nothing for the composition so added Cloudy Blue to that hence the tree shapes.  A trunk was put in using a chopstick and now I have an abstract landscape.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Tree Tapestry ~ How to Rework a Painting

 

                       AFTER version and final result Tree Tapestry mixed media 15x11 on Canson 140 lb paper completed today.

BEFORE original painting Strolling

 



 

First step:  Sketching tree trunks over existing watercolor using black Tombow brushpen

 



 

Second step:  Covering most of background with white gouache and Coastal Fog (Cheap Joe's), leaving colors inside trees.

 

In this work in progress step by step I am showing how to rework what I considered a failed painting into a mixed media landscape. It doesn't take too long to find a bad painting you want to improve upon and this one done in 2009 of a Victorian couple was no exception.  After deciding to do trees the rest was obliterating the background, first with gouache to see how it would look, then filling in with various Montana acrylic markers.  A black marker and Caran D'Ache watersoluble wax crayons were used last to accent and punch up the composition.  Very little of the original is now visible except in left foreground and within the tree trunks, branches, and limbs.

Image is COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.







Changing Seasons trees

12x9 watercolor on Langton 140 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints, an imaginary scene drawn yesterday and painted today.  I had decided it would be a winter scene then today changed the season to autumn as it has more colors.