High Country Barn in Snow

7x9 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done on Christmas Day 2023. In this imaginary snow scene featuring a barn, I've added mountains and trees and fences. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Three Red Pears

6.75x9.5 gouache watercolor on dictionary page done a few days ago from a fruit still life set up.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Femme Fatale

9x6 watercolor, Brusho, and India ink on wc paper done by stamping stencils on a background with complementary oranges and blues then dusting Brusho watercolor crystals into wet areas.  When dry black ink was applied for the female features.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2018.

Key Lime Slice

 

Watercolor and ink line in my sketchbook of a slice of yummy lime pie with graham cracker crust. Image COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

 



Red Bird Linda Rupard

Watercolor and ink on watercolor greeting card.

Grunge Journal

Start having fun with your creative self and begin making a grunge journal.  Find an old hardback discarded book that will lay flat when opened to any page.  Decorate, gesso, collage, glue pages together, ANYTHING GOES.  Sketch, paint, doodle, copy text and mix with any media you have.  It is your creation and no one sees it unless you let them.  Illustrated journaling is a blast!  This old book was published in 1959.  It is not a sketchbook, but a funbook!
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith/Brushworks Studio
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Sorrel Horse vignette

11x14 watercolor vignette of another artist's rodeo horse, painted a few weeks ago on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper.
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In the Garden Linda Rupard

This is watercolor on paper.

Pie in the Sky Linda Rupard

This is a alkahol ink on yupo .

Wino Chef

9x12 mixed media collage on Canson XL watercolor paper done this afternoon. Sketched with Micron 05 pen on a backing sheet for smaller works, the face and scarf was what I concentrated on, as the figurine I used to photograph him had him on a little bicycle. I first painted him in watercolor, then used a black and white Montana acrylic marker, then white acrylic on his chef jacket. Collage is bar and restaurant ad texts adhered with Liquitex matte medium.  Note the bloodshot eyes.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith

Summertime Sips Linda Rupard

This is a Watercolor on gallery wrap Canvas with painting going on around edges .

I Will Be Pretty Soon Carole Berry

This is Carole's parrot .

Wheels Linda Rupard

This is one of the summer projects for BSAA group.  I  found this bike  at the back door of restaurant 

In San Angelo.

Hidden Barn in the Fog & Mountain of Mist Summer Morning Carole Berry

These are paintings that Carole did when  Harvey came through their area.    So cold , almost feel the cold

Somber icy mist from these paintings.  Good job Carole!

First Friday Art Trail, Caboose Watercolor Society

Art by members of the Caboose Watercolor Society
collage ©2017 Leada Wood

Be sure to stop by the Garden Art Center this month and see the Caboose Watercolor Societies exhibition. The show runs from August 4th until August 25th. The opening will be during First Friday Art Trail in Lubbock, Texas.

Members exhibiting are: Linda Rupard, Estelle Howard, Kay Smith, Sue Bagwell, Carole Berry, Suzy Powell and Leada Wood.

Happy Holstein ~ torn paper collage on canvas

16x20 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas completed today after two days of working on it.  Another in my funky contemporary cow series, this black & white cow seems to be eyeing a bird close by.  This is my first collage featuring a cow.  After the sides are done, I will apply gloss medium varnish several times to seal it and make it shiny.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith

Apples Estelle Howard

Sharing red Apples by Estelle ?   This beautiful Watercolor is in my collection of Estelle's paintings.

Lone Tree Estelle Howard

Sharing another painting  of Estelle's that is going to her one man show in Colorado City tomorrow.

.Mountain Meadows Estelle Howard

Painting from Estelle's mountain country of NM .

Dead Vehicle Challenge

James Gurney posted a challenge...Paint a dead vehicle. One that doesn't run. Car or truck.
I wanted to do this old vehicle for a while so I set up there and did it.  It had to be painted on location, and you had to post a photo of your easel, etc.  This old international is in Plains, TX.
I started out trying to use oils but I don't paint enough with oil to know what to do, so I ended up using a sketchbook, and drawing it with my fountain pen and ink, then painted with watercolor and a little gouache.

Still Waiting

This old car is on the side of the road close to Hereford, TX. I loved the way it looked against the train car with the Graffiti. 

"Sun Seekers" by Leada Wood

"Sun Seekers" ©2017 Leada Wood
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