Zebra Grazing

6x4 watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper, painted from one of my wild animal park photos. In this miniature, the zebra seems oblivious to his surroundings.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Zebra Zone ~ day 19 of 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

5.5x7 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper that is today's daily painting for Leslie Saeta's challenge.  Twice a year her blog hosts any artists wanting to pledge to paint one work per day.  Sometimes I do more than one to stay ahead.  The zebra here is being also featured on WetCanvas animal challenge for January hosted by Virginie.  Dark stripes a mix of ultramarine blue and quinacridone burnt sienna, and background was changed from the green foliage to earthy browns and rusty oranges.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Zebra - Splendor in the Grass

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper painted from one of my wildlife park photos of a zebra eating his grass.  This work sold at its first show.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith and is SOLD.

Wild Grass Zebra

6x6 watercolor over ink line drawing with Pigma Micron 01 pen on Masters paper done yesterday on a whim.  Both black and brown stripes make this fellow one with the wild grass surrounding him, making him blend in the environment.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Zebra Elements II

9.5x8 watercolor, brush only, the counterpart to earlier post yesterday of zebra anatomy; this is his nose and narrow view of his head and wider view of the neck.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Zebra Elements 1

9x8.5 watercolor using brush only, no pencil, done this weekend so I'd have two zebra details loosely painted to go into a single frame. First I wet top side only of each of these Canson 140 lb papers, then with 1" brush smeared sepia watercolor and let dry for an abstract background.  Then choosing one of my zebra photos from a wildlife preserve I used my Zoomfinder to zero in on parts of the animal to draw with #8 round synthetic brush.  Here you see the animal's right eye and right ear, mane, and part of forehead.  Other colors used were UB, quinacridone burnt orange, yellow ochre, mint julep, and indigo.  Tomorrow I'll show the second one and it won't necessarily be the lower part of the zebra's head to follow along with this.  It may be the opposite side!
Image COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Funky Fellow zebra

30x22 watercolor SOLD completed a few years ago.  After drawing the zebra, I cut stripes with a razor blade and removed them, then placed an old dog of a watercolor behind.  This provided pattern and gave the animal some pizzazz.