Seedless Grapes

5.5x8.5 watercolor using White Nights paints, Masters Touch paper, done last weekend. These were first sketched using Micron 01 pen. A small vineyard still life in the sun waiting to be picked. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Celebrate!

10.25 x 4.25 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, another in my New Year celebration series.  The thin ribbons are leftover Christmas trim and bottle of bubbly is long gone. For this one, I did use masking fluid.  I may have to buy a bottle of something as my birthday is coming up in January.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Mini Cabernet

7.5x5.5 acrylics on gessoed watercolor paper done this weekend along with a much larger version similar to a wine still life I've done before.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Wine O'Clock

15x11 mixed media on Arches 140 lb cold press wc paper done today.  It is currently featured on WetCanvas in the Weekend Drawing Event hosted by Christine in Australia.  I used charcoal pencil to sketch over a poured watercolor primary colored background.  My intention was to paint poinsettias but saw the wine bottle, glasses, plants, and chair and thought the still life set up was more interesting.  Caran D'Ache NeoColor II wax crayons used for accent colors at the end.  Some realism, abstraction, and imagination here.  The mosaic table's broken tiles were outlined around sections of paint already there from the underpainting, then enhanced.  Now they might resemble cheese wedges.  Not a great painting but a fun one.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Recipe for Romance - Wine, Roses, Valentines!

15x11 watercolor done this afternoon with Valentine's Day in mind.  After drawing in all the elements of wine glasses, rose and leaves, I painted wet on dry.  When finished, I took an old red paper heart stencil and painted its holes in heart patterns to provide detail at the bottom foreground.  A little Chablis and Chardonnay go a long way for romance and if he puts the rose in his mouth, I'm his...

Celebrate!

10.25 x 4.25 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, drawn and painted today, another in my New Year celebration series.  The thin ribbons are leftover Christmas trim and bottle of bubbly is long gone. For this one, I did use masking fluid.  I may have to buy a bottle of Dom Perignon as my birthday is coming up this month.

Picnic Basket still life

11x15 watercolor demo today for my workshop held at my studio.  I cropped an old photo of a store window display, changed colors around then drew and painted this on Acquerello 140 lb cold press paper by Dick Blick.