Some Wine for Valentine

8x6 watercolor and ink line (Uniball pen) on Stillman and Birn Zeta series sketchbook. Two imaginary wine glasses of Cabernet were sketched along with the hearts then painted in this whimsical Valentine still life. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Wine for Valentine

8x6 watercolor and ink line (Uniball pen) on Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook.  Yesterday the two wine glasses of Cabernet were sketched along with the hearts then painted today in this imaginary Valentine still life.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Fondness for Hearts

5.5x7.5 watercolor on 140 lb hot press paper done yesterday. I first drew in 4 heart shapes with a white wax crayon, then did a quick underpainting using alizarin crimson and thalo blue. Over those colors I laid crumpled plastic wrap and let it dry all day.  Later, I lifted up the plastic to find a multitude of crinkled areas from which new hearts were developed by negative and positive painting.