Splash 14 Light & Color

North Light Books newest Splash series book is out this month! My white cat painting is featured in it.  You can pre-order by visiting this link http://www.northlightshop.com/splash-14-best-of-watercolor-w7951  that should have "Sinatra" reclining on his antique store furniture.  Inside the book cannot be seen electronically unless you place an order.

Here is the blue eyed boy himself as I painted him in August 2011.  This work was sold to a collector in Bangkok, Thailand.  Size is 15x22 watercolor, COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2011.

Splash 14 Selection for 2013

It's Official: Splash 14 Notifications!

http://www.artistsnetwork.com/medium/watercolor/announcing-the-winners-of-splash-14-best-of-watercolor

The above link was announced on WetCanvas! home page of the 106 watercolorists who were accepted and of that number Chris Beck and I are the lucky Art Colony blog gals.  Last August I painted a lovely white domestic shorthair cat with blue eyes named Sinatra, who lives in Tyler, TX, at an antique store called Special Effects on Old Bullard Rd.  Mollie Jones, another Colony artist, will tell his owner, Polly Hitt, about it.  The original has been sold to a collector in Bangkok, Thailand.

This 15x22 watercolor was featured as a step by step work in progress here on my blog during August 2011 if anyone wants to see its inception and progression.  The new book will be published in 2013 by North Light Books, F+W media.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

15x11 watercolor of a cockatoo on his branch, surveying his world.  This bird was one of my submissions to North Light Books for their Painter's Quick Reference series on Birds & Butterflies.

Scarlet Macaw

11x15 watercolor, another bird in the series I did, demo illustration for North Light Books.  This parrot was not used and I was kind of sad because he looks so happy and perky.  This is on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper with Daniel Smith paints.

Splash 7 Tulips Bouquet

22x15 watercolor of mixed tulips in old white vase.  This still life is remembering the flowers painted I bought myself after getting my work of a white cockatoo included in North Light's Splash series.  It is painted wet in wet on 140 lb cold press paper.