Watchful Eye of the Cat

7x10 watercolor on Langton 140 lb cold press paper block, using a combination of several refs into an entirely different scene.  I was using a new paper and working on it while in New Mexico this past weekend.  This painting is SOLD.

Lilac Chair

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints.  This is an older painting featuring a rather worn wooden chair with chipped paint stuck in the garden to hold plants.  I have painted other versions changing the direction and adding other flowers such as geraniums to the wire basket.  I painted this wet in wet and did negative painting on background and foreground.

Sunflower

15x22 watercolor from a bowed head sunflower photo taken in Odessa, TX.  I first painted it in acrylics on canvas years ago and now have done in another medium.  Its title is "Sun Worshipper" and is largely yellow and blue.

Mission Landscape

15x22 watercolor imaginary landscape that put a southwest mission into its rolling hills.  This was painted wet in wet on 140 lb cold press paper.

Stray Calico

6x9 watercolor on Strathmore painted today for a weekend drawing event; photo courtesy WetCanvas! This little stray looked so forlorn that I just had to paint her lovely eyes and face.

Jacque Rabbit reworked watercolor demo

22x15 watercolor, gouache, over failed watercolor painting of a too detailed floral.  One of my line drawings was placed over the old one and the shape outlined in fine tip Sharpie.  I placed a full sheet acetate over and began laying in large areas with paint to see what worked and what did not.  There was lots of negative painting in the original piece and I wanted some of that patterning to show in the finished rabbit.  This was begun as a demo last Monday at the Palette Club in Midland, TX.  There are tiny touches of line emphasized with Caran D'Ache watersoluble crayons.  I will be back there in June 7-9 for a short workshop teaching this method; email me to find out more:  kay1971smith@aol.com

Here is the old failed painting, an imaginary floral which shows what was in my brain at the time last year, mostly nothing! I did like the warm coral, pink, gold, yellow, magenta, and orange colors accented by the dark hunter and lime greens, and cobalt teal blue.

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Fruit of the Spirit

22x30 watercolor of pears and apple still life that includes a mission front.  The apple is cut indicating Eve has been busy while the entrance to the church is open for all to partake of the fruit of the Spirit.