Christy Baker Knight
Painting, Pen & Ink, Illustration, Murals and Product Design
Wildflowers from Ajax Peak, San Juan Range, Colorado (12,785 feet)
Watercolor, original art
The above and below paintings have sold at the Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy Auctions in 2022 and 2023
Woodland Wild Ginger, watercolor and graphite, original art, collection Sally & Pete Parsonson
ICON, Great Blue Heron in Egg Tempera, can be viewed two ways to reflect the two choices we have: upside down strangled to death in fishing line as this magnificent creature was documented, or right side up and flying free. What will we choose?
Naturalist Art
Watercolor, mixed media & ink
Christy works with natural subjects, researching species, habitat and season. She specializes in botanical and ornithological portraits and landscapes that border on abstraction.
Magnified elements, like this fruit of Euonymus americanus, add scientific detail.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, watercolor on 140 lb. hot press paper, collection Florida and Doug Ellis.
No black paint was used by the artist; rather, the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue were added in many washes and varying hues to create the rich depth of the bird's top feathers. In keeping with traditional watercolor techniques, no white paint was used either. A cerulean blue wash was used to reveal the glossy quality of the Camellia leaves.
Tidepool Series: Jewel Box,
Crossroads Tapestry and Deep Water
Gouache on black paper
Bring your unique product and business ideas to life with custom ink renderings or full color design. Christy confidentially learns your exact needs and includes a free consultation, graphite sketch for approval with up to two revisions, and final art on archival hot press paper suitable for scanning, printing and framing. Discounts apply for subsequent renderings.
"What a great job! You perfectly captured my idea and the colors and format I wanted."
~Happy Repeat Client
"We were so glad you were up for making the revisions we needed to the design. It turned out exactly as we'd hoped. Thank you!"
~Happy Client
Above: full color product art for a landscape design company specializing in tropical species.
Castilleja coccinea, watercolor illustration and its pen and ink pattern for the scientifically correct botanical porcelain project, Humboldt Field Research Institute, Maine, C.B. Knight
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Pen & Ink
Book Illustration
Antique looking line illustrations drawn with a crow quill pen for:The Metcalfe Family Album, Six Generations of Traditions and Memoriesby Sallyann J. MurpheyChronicle Books
These line illustrations were meant to look a bit naive as drawn by a French woman pioneer in America in the 1800's...
These line illustrations were meant to look a bit naive as drawn by a French woman pioneer in America in the 1800's...
Ink illustration of an authentic pioneer woman's kitchen.
Book jacket illustration design for Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc. Life Along the Etowah River: An Archaeological and Historical Perspectiveby Garrett Silliman and Lori Thompson
Selected patrons and national juried shows:
Wayne and Tom Johnson
Rosalyn and Chris Devine
Lisa and Peter Aman
Penny and Brian Dyson
Lucinda and Robert Bunnen
Kristin and Cort Stockton
The Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta
The Hambidge Center, Rabun, Georgia
The Missouri Botanic Garden, St. Louis
Cadeaux Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
The South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts
The New York State Museum, Albany
Landscapes, Family Trees & Homes
Eze Landscape
collection Fred and Cindy Boyd
Cindy and Fred honeymooned on the gorgeous coast of France. As a surprise anniversary and holiday gift, Cindy commissioned this watercolor of the town of Eze where they had enjoyed peaceful walks through the sunlit streets.
To create luminous shadow and brilliant sunlight, the artist used a neutral tint mixture of the three primary colors and then added warm layers of yellows. To capture the various blues of the Mediterranean Sea, cerulean blue, French ultramarine and primary blue were layered in broad sweeping washes.
18 x 24" watercolor on 140 lb.cold press paper
To create luminous shadow and brilliant sunlight, the artist used a neutral tint mixture of the three primary colors and then added warm layers of yellows. To capture the various blues of the Mediterranean Sea, cerulean blue, French ultramarine and primary blue were layered in broad sweeping washes.
18 x 24" watercolor on 140 lb.cold press paper
Illustrated Family Trees evoke heritage of place for generations to treasure.
Home renderings capture the places where we live, vacation and honor our family roots.
Document fascinating parts of a property, such as this vintage covered entertaining area in the woods at the historic Meredith House. See more renderings of this fascinating property here.
A project inspired by a webinar with Adam Betuel and Georgia Audubon. Obsessed with the rich color and diminutive nature of the Snowcap Hummingbird of Costa Rica, I first worked in watercolor and then wanted to capture its rainforest habitat with found natural elements in a shadowbox format. Christy will be teaching this process in workshops this year.
Murals & Wall Borders
Roswell Regional Library Mural
Award, children's area
Transform your space. Christy creates murals and wall borders for both private residences and public venues. She was awarded the Roswell Regional Library Children's Area Mural Project by the Fulton County Arts Commission and also the Early Childhood School library mural which incorporated a 3-D theme.
The Georgia state bird and flower, the Brown Thrasher and Cherokee Rose, depicted in a library mural.
Color illustration of a sweet-looking yet invasive species for a naturalist novel.
Christy also writes award-winning naturalist fiction. Read her latest work:
