Romance

12x9 mixed media (acrylics, ink, paper transfers) on Crescent matboard started yesterday and finished today.
It's a disaster but I had fun! I used gloss medium and varnish over acrylic painted areas that I'd used paper round doily on, then quickly pulled up. The figures are from an old Victorian catalog cover and bottom right a new Dick Blick sale book cover; black lines from an inkjet print of my cosmos...it was too old a copy and so lines did not all come off. When dry, I went back in with pink acrylic and lightly brushed in paint where top layer of the mat had peeled off.  This painting is featured on WetCanvas Mixed Media/Alternative Materials forum for May, where we practiced different photo transfer methods.
Image COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Birdhouse

11.25x7.5 watercolor of a Ruidoso NM birdhouse photographed years ago.  I've had requests for prints of it so decided to reshoot its image and enable for prints on demand with Artspan website gallery onlne.  Painted partly wet in wet and wet on dry on 140 lb cold press paper with Daniel Smith/DaVinci paints.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2014.

Riding Around dog

6x6 watercolor and ink on Masters paper drawn yesterday and painted today with Daniel Smith pigments.  Pigma Micron 01 pen was used to draw this happy fellow getting to go for a ride around town in the car.
Image COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Layered Landscape

5.5x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper completed today, an exercise in layering one color over another and finishing with darkest values.  No pencil was used, brush only, in this semi-abstract design of cool hues with warm accents.  This technique was outlined in Veronica Lawlor's new book One Watercolor a Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design (Quarry).
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

White Persian Kitten

6x6 watercolor and ink line on Masters paper; drawn with Pigma Micron 01 pen by Sakura.  Pigments used were Daniel Smith.  This is a quick study of another white kitten painted last July.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Blue Green Funky Floral

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, today's work inspired by a detail pattern on an old rug.  Unrealistic this funky bunch make a cool bouquet of greens, turquoise, mint green and green gold.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Got My Goat

18x24 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper drawn yesterday and painted today of this curious goat sticking his head out of old farm building and pen.  I featured it on the WetCanvas Animal & Wildlife forum for our May challenge, courtesy of Morguefile.  I used Daniel Smith and American Journey paints, wet on dry, and used lots of drybrush technique for the old textured wood.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.