Crow Master

11x8.5 watercolor of a regal rooster preparing to crow for the farm and neighbors if any. I painted this wet on dry using Daniel Smith paints on 140 lb cold press paper. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Rowdy Rooster

8.5x6 watercolor/ink line on ColorSketch sketchbook yellow tinted paper done today. This is for another WetCanvas online challenge where participants have 2 hours to do their art. It was sketched with STA Lictin 0.3 pen followed by paint. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Designer Birds II

12.25x23.75 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, a comical set of three roosters still life I drew from a ceramic model in my kitchen.  Background was left white to further emphasize the birds design.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Buff Cochin Bantam Rooster plus an ink sketch for #InkTober

 9x12 watercolor done today on 140 lb cold press paper, as part of current monthly Watermedia challenge on WetCanvas.  Photo courtesy of Kara, the host, and this is her rooster.

Ink sketch of two pronghorn antelope seen out in west Texas using Pitt pens on sketchbook paper for #InkTober worldwide challenge in which artists must do a work in ink once a day for all of October.
Images COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Cock of the Walk

9.5x7 watercolor on paper (Ecosystem sketchbook) done a few days ago of a regal rooster on white background.  Drawn with Uniball pen this rooster was largely a contour line piece with color accents mostly up at his head and was done very quickly.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Crow Master rooster

11x8.5 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, drawn and painted over the weekend for an online exercise with WetCanvas! Using my iPad, I flipped the white rooster image then used a summer filter to make him more colorful with vivid yellow gold and gamboge feathers.  Blue Bice by American Journey are the opaque turquoise blue areas for cool touches in a warm temperature painting.  No masking was used for his tiny feathers above his eye.  The larger the wattle and comb, the more females he can attract.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Proud Rooster

6x6 watercolor and ink on Masters paper; sketched with Pigma Micron 01 black ink technical pen done today.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.