March Daffodil

7.25x4 miniature watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done earlier in the month, a bulb of spring sprouting its yellow cheerfulness all around. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Garden Chicken

6x8 watercolor on Fluid 140 lb hot press paper done earlier in the month as part of another online WetCanvas challenge. References are provided and participants have 2 hours to select then paint. The motivation is that you usually choose a subject that ordinarily you wouldn't and must quickly develop a liking for it or a passion. To me this chicken exploring her garden shows curiousity of animals and birds that is amazing to think about. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Lost Wagon on the Prairie

6x9 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper painted a couple weeks ago using my wagon sketch I found in an old sketchbook. But no reference photo could be found so colors are imaginary of the lost wagon on the prairie. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Eye of the Rooster

9x6 watercolor on Winsor & Newton 140 lb cold press paper, done earlier in the month using one of many rooster and chicken photo references. With this fellow, I've cropped him closely to better focus on his eye and comb. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Party Time Parrot Tulip

9x6 watercolor using Rosa brand paints made in Ukraine on Winsor & Newton 140 lb cold press paper done earlier this month. With this variegated parrot tulip I've added other colors that complement one another for maximum effect. Before painting the tulip, I did a pale underpainting wash with pink, blue, and yellow primary colors. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

March Tulip Collage

8x5.5 mixed media collage in new junk journal, a book written in the 1940s. I used watercolor, ink, various papers with text and adhered to the book page done first part of March. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Bug Eyed Bunny ~ Happy Easter!

Bug Eyed Bunny ~ Happy Easter! 9x7 watercolor over ink sketch with Micron 01 pen in Masters Touch sketchbook. The rabbit, or hare, or bunny, was sketched last week; ref courtesy WetCanvas for Weekend Drawing Event. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Frosted Farm

7x9 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done at month's beginning, a winter landscape using my farm reference. Here a heavy frost covers the distant farmhouse and barn with buildings while a deep ditch is in the foreground. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Thirsty Horse

11x11 watercolor painted on 140 lb cold press paper done at start of the month, another online challenge. This is another artist's horse ref photo. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Jo's Cosmos

5x5 watercolors on Bristol 300 series 100 lb cold press paper done at beginning of March; ref provided by Jo Castillo, Texas artist, on one of the online art sites, Creative Spark. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

March Magnolias

5x9 watercolor using Rosa paints made in Ukraine on 140 lb cold press paper done at beginning of the month for a challenge on WetCanvas. Ref courtesy WetCanvas. All the soft pastel colors of Spring are present in this floral watercolor nature painting. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Tulip Twists

7x9 watercolor on Fabrtiano 140 lb hot press paper done last month, a dramatic floral of white tulip with dark background. Hot press paper is a joy to work on in art. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Cloud Cover Over Water

5.5x8.5 watercolor using White Nights paints on Canson 117 lb cold press paper done last month. This marine scape was part of an online challenge; ref courtesy another artist. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Dry Desert Icons

30x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted earlier in the month. I have painted this southwest landscape mission more than once and in different ways. Seagulls in acrylic are on the reverse side. With the imaginary saguaro cactus flanking the tall mission bell tower, the bottom part beckons you to come on inside. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Heehaw Donkeys

12x9 watercolor on Bristol 300 series 100 lb paper done last month, another donkey painting in my series using my older photos from a farm south of town. They seem to be saying HeeHaw! as loud as possible and are such clowns of the animal world. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Couch Cat

8x5.5 mixed media using ink on acrylic background in new junk journal done last month. The journal is a nonfiction book written in the 40s and the ref is another artist's cat. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Excited Hummer

5x7 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done last month using several refs I shot last summer in New Mexico. I used White Nights paints. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Eye of the Horse

22x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted last month, the second or third time to paint this handsome flea-bitten grey of my brother's. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Glad Hummer

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch premium 140 lb cold press paper painted last month, another gladiolus or gladioli, but with a hummingbird. I've used White Nights paints working wet on dry. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

So Glad

8x8 watercolor floral on Masters Touch painted in February as part of class exercises with gladioli or gladiolus blooms. This one was an imaginary white flower I have added Sennelier colors to beginning with darks first. Also I used Daniel Smith's Moonglow. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Marching Elephant

7x9 Tombow brush pens using portrait palette set in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper, done last month while out of town. After the watersoluble ink was in, I used a rigger brush and water to blend the colors somewhat of the marching elephant. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Winter Bench

8.5x5.5 watercolor on Canson 117 lb paper done last month; one of my winter photos used in the WetCanvas Landscape forum. I used White Nights paints with this cold winter scene outside a park. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Vintage Egg Beater

9x7 watercolor, acrylics and ink in 80 lb sketchbook done last month. I used White Nights paints and STA Lictin 0.2 pen along with generic acrylics. Love these vintage kitchen items only seen in antique stores and a few in my kitchen. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

From the Florist

15x11 watercolor watercolor on Canson XL 140 lb cold press done last month from my photos of florist flower images. I used Rosa paints for some of the quinacridone pinks and corals. These were wrapped in red paper probably for the Valentine part of February. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Scarlet Macaw repainted

10x10 torn paper collage on canvas plus an added acrylics on the background, done last month. I had done this collage previously but the bg was too busy. Adding blue and green acrylic paint kept the color and value there while eliminating confusion. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Another Confetti Cactus

Another Confetti Cactus 8x5.5 mixed media using acrylics and ink in new junk journal from the 1940s I created last month. This is the third fun yet funky decorated cactus I have done. The first one has gone to its new home so still have the second and this one. No two are alike. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Remnant Rose Delight

8x5.5 mixed media in new junk journal done last month in which I took a previously painted rose using alcohol inks and added acrylics for a fresh look. The junk journal is an old book from the 1940s. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Alpaca Friends

6x4 watercolor miniature painted on Bristol 300 series 100 lb paper last month; ref courtesy WetCanvas host Valri. These animals look so sweet I just had to do them. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Poppy Paradise

15x11 watercolor on Canson XL 140 lb cold press paper over pencil sketch done last month from my poppy photos; foreground is imaginary to show more of the plant stems and blooms. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Pear Delight

5x4 acrylics on 140 lb cold press watercolor paper done last month during one of our art association paint in afternoons. This miniature is modeled after a green and black pear painted previously. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

March Magnolias

5x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done today using Rosa paints made in Ukraine. Love the pinks in these colors. Ref courtesy WetCanvas Watercolor forum for March challenge. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith