Striped Beach Chairs

5.5x7 mixed media in junk journal done today for WetCanvas weekend drawing event. I used Stabilo woody pencils and watercolor over partly gessoed page. Ref courtesy Rousay. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Flamboyant Flower

9.75x9.75 alcohol inks on paper done using only two colors: Eggplant and Lettuce. The stem was made using a chopstick. I like how the Eggplant splits into its different color hue makeup as you can see blues and pinks. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Pray for Peace Rose

8x8 watercolor on 140 lb Masters Touch done last week, a floral design I had painted before. The rose was from one of mine that grow at my studio. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Flower Urn

6x6 watercolor using White Nights paints done week before last, a simple floral garden scene on 80 lb sketchbook paper (Master's Touch). COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Red Squirrel Headshot

Sea Oats

7x9 watercolor using Daniel Smith paints done last weekend or so, an imaginary beach foliage scene in Masters Touch sketchbook. Sea oats are necessary to help with erosion. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

May Coneflowers

7x9 watercolor with White Nights paints on 80 lb Masters Touch sketchbook paper over ink line using Micron 01 and STA o3 ink pens. i started this floral last week and it is now finished. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Tiny Poppy Row

Tiny Poppy Row 3x5 watercolor miniature recently done from imagination of a field of red poppies COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

White Horse Profile

9x7 watercolor using White Nights paints done last weekend while on a trip; this image was part of a WetCanvas weekend drawing event and I had to complete it within 2 hours. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Art Studio

15x22 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper painted wet into wet using one of my photos from a trip to Ruidoso years ago. This artist's studio was less than a block from the main street Sudderth Drive. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Love Affair

5.5 x 12 watercolor on Canson paper, drawn from life and recently finished. I tried to make the tulips' transparency obvious where they overlap...long had a love affair with this particular bulb and have painted hundreds of them. This pair is on fire for each other and hopefully the viewer! COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

San Jose Church

9x7 watercolor painted last week on 80 lb sketchbook paper from one of my southwest mission style photos. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Quickie Peace Rose

8x10 quick watercolor study of one of my last peace roses from an old rose bush with massive fragrant blooms. This bush was the first one planted at my studio on Scurry St. I was able to do some negative painting of leaves, stems, and buds with this one. It is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Bloomsday

15x22 watercolor on Italia Acquerello 140 cold press paper of my old antique watering can surrounded by happy faces of the sherbet-hued pansies. Just waiting to be planted and watered, so I call this one "Bloomsday". Have a bright Spring everybody and thank the Lord for the rain. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Green Wicker Chair with Geraniums

20x26 watercolor on Yupo medium weight synthetic paper. Painted awhile ago, this patio scene is saying Spring pretty loud and clear. I've done this old warped wicker chair many times in many mediums but not on Yupo. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Petal Pushers

15x22 watercolor of still life tulips set up in my dining room by an old oil painting. The light from the window behind illuminated the spring blooms perfectly. My hunter green wall adds a complementary punch to the vivid orange. This is painted on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper. Steps in creating this painting can be seen on this blog in February 2011. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Pals

5x7 watercolor of two friends, Saunie's gray tabby cat and her lovely large brown dog, basking in the early morning sunshine. This is on Saunders 140 lb paper with American Journey paints and is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Politicians

22x15 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper. Using only black and white photos I drew each fur-person carefully then painted wet on dry using imagination. On right hand side with orange background is a Siamese and that is Jezebel, my first studio kitty. It was hard to find a sleezy name and many nouns such as Scalawags (too doggish), Jailbait, Devils in Fur Coats, came to mind but politicians seemed to fit perfectly. The cute phrase Cats are Just Tiny Women in Cheap Fur Coats is different, too. I love the one wet kitty on the left. I hope the cat lovers admire this one as it took awhile to do. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Poppy Arrangement

18x10 watercolor on cold press 140 lb painted last week, a much looser design of floral stems in a vase. Although the red poppies command attention it is the stems in water that are very interesting in this tall vertical format. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Magnolia Moment

15x22 watercolor of my aunt's magnolia tree branches and bloom, painted wet in wet, trying to capture the waxy texture of its petals. I reversed this image and painted it that way as well during a class. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Fantasy Petals

7x9 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done a few days ago this week, just an imaginary free floral form design but with some logic to it. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Equine Energy

6x6 watercolor Brusho in grey done a few days ago, a simple curved line shape for a handsome horse. Minimal color used with this one painted in Masters Touch sketchbook. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Gull Landing

9x7 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper, done over the past weekend for another WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event. Ref courtesy Rousay. Participants have 2 hours to select their choice image to paint and this one was done close to an hour. The ref had him landing on grass so I've changed it to water and sky. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Three Red Pears

9x12 watercolor and gold Sharpie marker on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done last week, an exercise done for my Monday afternoon class. With this approach, a color temperature palette is chosen of warm or cool (reds, oranges, yellows or blues, greens, etc.)then begin with any but only paint a small, medium, and large shape in that chosen color. That hue cannot be used again unless mixed with another for a new color, even white. May add black and at least one cool color if using a warm selection or one warm if using a cool. When done select another small, medium, and large shape already painted to add pattern to with a gold marker for warms and a silver marker for cools, as seen here on the black. Any tiny dot, circle, square, diamond, cross, etc. will work but do not go over the entire composition of flat shapes. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Bright Sun

7x9 watercolor on Masters Touch 80 lb paper in sketchbook done last week as part of a WetCanvas challenge I set up. Participants were given the prompt 'sun' and had to fit it into a landscape, skyscape, marine scape, etc. In my imaginary scene I used a cut circle from masking tape to adhere to the paper then painted around that, as I don't use frisket/miskit or any masking fluid. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Hollyhock Heaven

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, painted wet into wet from some of my hollyhock photo refs. I first painted this back in 1999. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Pink Coneflower and Black Red Butterfly

7.5x5 watercolor and ink line with Micron 01 pen done one weekend while in the cool mountains from my coneflower photos. Support used: Moleskine sketchbook for watercolor with Daniel Smith paints. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Drowsy Elephant

6x6 watercolor and ink using STA Lictin pen 0.3 and Gansai Tambi graphite paints by Kuretake. This is on Masters Touch 80 lb paper in sketchbook done a few days ago. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Midday Sunflowers

6x6 watercolors over ink pen using STA Lictin 0.05 in Masters Touch sketchbook done last week, a bit early to see sunflowers so used my own photos of them. So bright and cheerful I'd like to plant some. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Aquarius Self Portrait

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, a self portrait finished last week. Using a side shot photo of myself plus part of waterlilies photo taken years ago, a combination of water bearer Aquarius was created. Daniel Smith paints and DaVinci were used. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Plum Pink Daylily

8x6 watercolor using Rosa paints made in Ukraine done last week, a quick daylily in pink and purple hues. I planted these in our front flowerbed but the deer eat them before they can bloom. This is on Masters Touch 140 lb cold press paper. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith