KaySmithBrushworks
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Cactus Night
5.5x8.5 mixed media in sketchbook done week before last while on a trip. I used Crayola markers, White Nights watercolors, white gel pen, acrylics, and black India ink. No reference used, only imagination how cactus appears during the night hours. I used Master's Touch sketchbook for mixed media.
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Monday, July 7, 2025
Hummer and Poppies
5.5x7.5 watercolor using White Nights paints done week before last while on our trip to New Mexico; this hummingbird is featured with poppies which was a crop from a sold painting. It is done on Fabriano 140 lb cold press paper in a handmade book purchased from an Etsy store.
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Rainy Day Donkey
12x9 markers and ink pen on Canson 117 lb cold press paper done week before last while on an art trip; I used Crayola Pip Squeaks kids' watersoluble markers to sketch the donkey then applied water. Micron 01 pen was used for finer and darker details in this fun donkey painting along with small amount of watercolor for splatters.
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Saturday, July 5, 2025
Drunk Donkeys
8x10 acrylics on wrapped canvas done last week while on a trip. Occasionally I enjoy doing funny, comical animals and these three guys were very drunk.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
Fenced in Donkey
15x11 watercolor using White Nights paints done last week of June on Grumbacher 140 lb cold press paper. As part of the Animals Wildlife forum on WetCanvas I featured the image with the June challenge and enjoyed the friendly donkey poking his nose through the fence wire.
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Thursday, July 3, 2025
Bookshelf
5.5x8.5 watercolor still life using White Nights paints done week before last while on a trip; this is in Master's Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper painted within 2 hour time limit. Ref courtesy WetCanvas weekend drawing event challenge.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Black Hollyhock Blooms
8x8 watercolor using White Nights paints done mid-June of one of my studio black hollyhock plants. I had painted this floral scene years ago in a full sheet 30x22 and sold it. So here is a mini version on Master's Touch 140 lb cold press paper.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025
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Cactus Night
5.5x8.5 mixed media in sketchbook done week before last while on a trip. I used Crayola markers, White Nights watercolors, white gel pen, ...

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8.5x5.5 mixed media on sketchbook 80 lb paper done about a week ago. I used wax crayons to sketch Santa then filled in colors with watercol...
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8.5x5.5 watercolor over colored pencil sketch done last weekend in Masters Touch sketchbook; this cat belongs to artist Christine and her c...
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15x11 watercolor of a very large strawberry painted twice on separate 140 lb cold press Kilimanjaro paper, then cut one into horizontal st...