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

Caviar Chef - torn paper collage on canvas

12x12 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas that was auctioned today to benefit United Way in Big Spring, TX.
I made this fellow a few years ago using glossy magazine pages, and am so glad he got a new home.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2011.

New North Light Book

 I can't believe 2014 is almost gone.  It has been such a good year! All of our family is healthy and happy and we got a new Granddaughter-n-law this year.  We have been so blessed in every way.
I have had a good 'art' year! We got a new building for me to hang my work in as well as teach and share my love of painting and creating.  It has been so awesome having my own place to go out and teach! I don't have to load everything up, etc.  My little Backyard Gallery and Studio has been such a blessing.  I did the 30 day challenge in January and September as well as 2 online sketchbook classes.
Now to end the year, I have some news! Wow..a great year to end one and start another.

I got word today saying my mixed-media art has been selected for publication in
Incite 3: The Art of Storytelling, that is published by North Light Books.
The painting that was selected is  'Wyoming Cowboy', a torn paper collage. So to go along with 'Story Telling'... I met this cowboy in 2013 when I got to go to Wyoming for a week workshop.  We got to go out to his ranch, and I took photos of him off an on all week because of the way he dressed. He didn't look like our Texas Cowboys.  I loved his hat, and his silk scarves!
His family has been there close to Dubois, WY for generations.  We spent an afternoon there, and it was an awesome time seeing the corrals and barns that were made with logs.  John loved sharing his family's  home, and barns.  He wanted us to go through the house where he grew up. It was like it was when he was growing up. Just like someone still lived there.  That morning he tracked a bear by the corrals. I hope I get to go back again! It was such a great time, and wonderful memories!

 Thank you all for your support and encouragement for the past years! 

My prayer is that we will be all healthy and happy in 2015!   

Happy New Year!

Red Amaryllis WIP - step 4

24x20 WIP (work in progress) continues with the background blues added today and other touch ups for about 2 hours time. I'm not sure the large dark green leaf lower left is light enough. On the monitor it appears too dark value, almost black. But in real life it isn't. More yellow was added for stamens that were tiny lemons in the photo I tore up. I still think Santa is a nice touch along with a torn word Believe. Go Red for Woman phrase is also put at lower left of its red petal. The other bloom behind it hopefully is not competing for attention. So stay tuned and you may see its finish tomorrow or the next day; tomorrow are three Christmas parties, two at work and the third is our Big Spring Art Association.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Gentle Giant Elephant collage

20x16 torn paper collage on gallery wrapped canvas, completed yesterday and SOLD!

Caviar Chef

12 x 12 torn paper collage on canvas done today at Suzy's class held at my studio. From his Hershey's hair to his caviar on crackers coat buttons, to his Denali/Yukon headlights for eyes, I think he is too cute! What do you think?

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window by Leada Wood ©

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window by Leada Wood©

This is a torn paper collage 11x14 on canvas. To see more of my inspiration and the process
click here: www.leadasblog.blogspot.com

New Collage: Pick Your Own

16x20 torn paper collage on gallery wrapped canvas, finished today after working on it all week! Based on an earlier watercolor, I sketched its outline directly onto the support with a black Sharpie, then began adhering colored magazine page scraps with gloss/varnish medium.

Bloomsday Pansies Collage

16x20 collage on canvas begun yesterday in Susie's workshop and finished up today after 4-5 more hours...I swear these can go on forever, but TOTAL FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This composition is based on my watercan and pansies drawing painted in watercolor a few months ago.

Demo at Colorado City, Studio Twenty w/Suzy Pal

This photo shows Susie Powell hard at work doing collage on canvas while Linda Rupard takes shots from the front. Suz showed us her coffee cup demo and was a pure joy watching her work and seeing her designs on canvas from clowns to bicycles to chefs...wish you could all have been there.