Thursday, August 30, 2012

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Elephant Eating

15x10 watercolor of a happy ellie eating from a tree.  Painted on Canson Montval 140 lb cold press paper I used Daniel Smith/DaVinci/American Journey paints.  This was done wet on dry.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Purrfect Harmony cat

15x22 watercolor done several years ago of black and white cat playing his own harmony purrfectly with just the right key piano notes.This work has been SOLD and is in the collection of Leada Wood, Studio Twenty in Colorado City, TX.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Black Beauty hollyhock

30x22 watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper, done several years ago, and purchased by my friend Debie Pirkle.  She brought it to be reframed so I took this opportunity to take a higher resolution photo image for my files.  Today I delivered it to her new house and it looks right at home there, framed with dark brown and an orange-red inner mat along with custom dark wood molding.  This black beauty is my favorite floral from the studio garden and is one of those you hate to part with.  This painting is SOLD. 


Saturday, August 25, 2012

Ready to Ride

8 3/4x 6 inches watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb paper; Daniel Smith paints, done today as my daily work.  Original photo featured on WetCanvas weekend drawing event by Lin.  You have to draw and paint your subject in under 2 hours.  This one was about an hour.Lin said the horse was in Laugharne, Carmathenshire, Wales where the RSPCA found him abandoned and starving.  A woman rescued him and they do dressage together.  For this work I've not painted her riding him and edited out buildings and clutter showing just him, such a handsome guy!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

HonkyTonk Shoes

7x11 watercolor and Pigma Micron 01 pen on Strathmore paper, drawn from some of my wild shoes and imaginary ones.  Ready to go dancing at the nearest honkytonk!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Being a Lab on a Green Couch

7x10 watercolor on Langton Prestige 140 lb CP paper; Daniel Smith paints done today as my daily painting.  I got wild with the color adding midnight blue to shadow areas on the dog's coat, quinacridone gold and gamboge on highlights and quin violet along with quin burnt orange elsewhere...green couch is covered in a loose slipcover.  At the end of an hour I let drips happen where they were.  This one is featured on WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event and ref courtesy of Susan the host.  The labrador was chocolate in color and couch was blue; the dog blended into the furniture and was a boring dull hue.

Sombrero

6x4 watercolor on Strathmore print making paper done first week of this month, another imaginary man in a sombrero hat. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith...