Trick or Treat!

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink line (Pigma Micron 01 pen) drawn on Masters Touch sketch paper, inspired by all the latest Halloween decorations. Fun yet spooky, let these pleasing pumpkins smile your worries away while the black cat and bats gather for a midnight rendevous. The large spider is busy spinning its web to catch us all in this happy, haunted tree. Happy Halloween to all my blog followers, friends and customers! COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Risky Roadrunner

6x6 black Brusho and watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook, 80 lb paper done week before last, another peppy roadrunner. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Inked Owl

6x6 ink and watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook 80 lb done week before last, another in my inked owl series. With this vignette I have used India ink and Grabie 03 pen. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Monday Hair

8.5x5.5 acrylics and ink (Grabie 01 pen) done last week in my mixed media sketchbook, a back side view of me on a bad hair Monday day. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Pumpkin Lines

6x8 watercolor and ink on handmade rough 140 lb cold press paper done last week. I've used Winsor Newton sepia 0.3 fine liner pen to sketch and Daniel Smith paints. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Southwestern Donkey demo

15x11 watercolor using Daniel Smith paints on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done on October 13. The demo was for the Mid-West Texas Artists Guild in Ballinger. Last visit there for a workshop was May 17, 2008. The second part of the day in afternoon was to practice placing line drawings over an old dog/old work. For the demo I used a sleeping cat and turned it vertically using same donkey previously painted in the morning. These imaginary works keep your creative juices flowing and fun happens. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Bright Golden Fields

3.75x3.5 watercolor on Canson using Daniel Smith paints done week before last, another imaginary landscape farm scene somewhere in America. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Poncho and Donkeys

9x7.25 watercolor on Aquabee 140 lb cold press done week before last, another imaginary man and donkeys scene somewhere. They could be in the southwest or in another country. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Caroline's Apples

6x9 watercolor done last week or so ago on Aquabee 140 lb cold press paper. Ref courtesy my artist friend Caroline in Scotland. I cropped her ref photo to focus only on a few of the juicy fruit. Daniel Smith paints were used. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Flower Garden Donkey

15x11 watercolor and ink over previously painted sleeping cat scene titled Dozing Cat done on 9-4-21 on Bienfang 140 lb cold press paper. This exercise was an afternoon demo for the Mid-West Texas Artists Guild in Ballinger last Tuesday. Participants did some amazing work. I placed my donkey line drawing over the cat and traced the outline. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

European Robin

9x12 watercolor done first part of this month for another WetCanvas weekend drawing event (ref courtesy Maureen). This robin is done on Aquabee 140 lb cold press paper using Daniel Smith paints, wet on dry in a direct method. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Pumpkin Box

8.5x5.5 mixed media on 110 lb paper for mixed media. After technical pen ink sketch using Grabie 03 pen, I laid cut bleeding tissue (red/orange/yellow) over it and spritzed with water. Let sit a minute then lifted off to reveal the amazing color tones the tissue left with its dye. When dry, I put in green parts of the stem, then added indigo and sepia for darks along the right side of the pumpkin box. A few shadows were put in and the abstract marks the tissue made were left alone. Looks like rays of sunshine falling across the pumpkins. This exercise was done this afternoon for our Monday class. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Percolator

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink (Pigma Micron 01 pen) on Masters sketchbook paper done previously. Getting perked up to start the fall time change. Not a problem here as long as there is caffeine brewing. Love my stainless steel percolator going at it and the smell of fresh coffee. COPYRIGHT 2026 Kay Smith

Stag

18x24 watercolor on Canson 140 lb. cold press paper painted previously in about an hour with a #14 round brush and a 1" flat sable. I first spritzed the paper at random with water over my pencil drawing then did the darks first. Antlers were done then the ears, nose, mouth. A very limited palette used of burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. Just a touch of raw sienna and raw umber in minute amounts were used along with lots of water sprayed into wet paint, letting drips happen. A final drip ran down from the background middle and onto the stag's back, creating a run into his back that looks like antler horn shadows. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Climbing Clouds

9x6.5 watercolor using Daniel Smith paints on Aquabee 140 lb cold press paper done last week, another imaginary sunny day. Poplar trees are rising tall in this country scene. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Suspicious Crow

12x9 mixed media on Canson 117 lb cold press paper done end of last month while on a trip to New Mexico. I'd just seen a crow out our back area acting suspicious. For this I used White Nights watercolosr, ink (R2 rollerball), markers, and Crayola Pip Squeak washable markers. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Rescued Donkey

3.5x2.5 watercolor and ink on 140 lb cold press Daler Rowney Prestige paper done first part of this month from photos a friend gave me. I used a Grabie 005 ink liner pen to sketch this miniature ACEO art card. Daniel Smith paints watercolors were used. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Gourd Grief Pumpkin

6x6 watercolor jack o' lantern done first week of this month in Master's Touch sketchbook, 80 lb paper. Another in my spooky season pumpkin art. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Hummer Colors

2.5x3.5 watercolor miniature hummingbird art done first of this month on 140 lb cold press paper. For this ACEO, I had to paint it twice, as the first one fell out of a sketchbook never to be found. References from photos taken in Alto this late summer at our feeder. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Radiant Rooster

5x6 mixed media on paper, another weekend drawing event on WetCanvas done last part of September. For this proud poultry fellow I used multicolored pencils, watercolor (White Nights), ink (Grabie 03 pen), and markers. It is painted on Canson 117 lb cold press paper. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026