Resa

9x7 watercolor for day 30 in April with the continued challenge of #30faces30days held by #sktchy. This young woman was a coworker of the featured artist and has a sweet smile. It is painted on sketchbook paper using White Nights paints. (Internet down yesterday so blog post couldn't be made. Day 29 was titled Milena's Mom 7x9 also sketchbook/White Nights paints that can be seen on DailyPaintworks.com in my gallery. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Toothpick Man

8.5x5 watercolor on brown paper, a portrait of a man with two toothpicks in his mouth done for day 21 of April's portrait challenge #sktchy #30faces30days. This guy was quite enjoyable to paint. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Jolene

8x6 watercolor on Fluid hot press 140 lb portrait done for day 18 in April as part of #sktchy challenge #30faces30days. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Woman in a Sari

9x7 watercolor in sketchbook 80 lb paper for day 17 during this April's portrait challenge by #sktchy. For the month students are given a video featuring a new muse usually in an interesting pose or character. For 30 days a portrait should be completed #30faces30days and I really enjoyed this woman in a sari to paint in monochromatic tones. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Headscarves

8.5x5.5 watercolor in mixed media sketchbook, done for day 14 of April's #30faces30days challenge by #sktchy. I really did enjoy doing this particular muse and the headscarves worn. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Rugged Man

8.5x5.5 watercolor in mixed media sketchbook 110 lb paper done second day in April for #sktchy #30faces30days challenge. For day two, this guy's rugged face made a real challenge for the artists. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Woman in Car

6.5x4.5 watercolor on tan paper done first day in April of #sktchy #30faces30days challenge. I used Inktense and white charcoal as well for this day one endeavor. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Little Boy in Santa Hat #sktchy #30faces30days ~ Day 14

9x6 mixed media using grey Noodler's ink in brush pen and colored pencils on wc paper done a couple weeks back for day 14 of Sktchy's new portrait challenge. This little boy belongs to the online instructor and looked so cute in a Santa hat. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Summertime Gal ~ #sktchy Portrait in Ink with Stamps/Stencils

11x8.5 mixed media portrait on brown paper that is no. 4 in #sktchy #joanmartin #makeyourmark online class. I began this by sponge rolling white acrylic onto the paper, then a pencil sketch followed by using rubber stamps then stencils. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

French Girl #30faces30days #sktchy day 27

10.25x9 ink sketch for day 27 of #sktchy #30faces30days annual challenge; this is on sketchbook paper using three different nib widths of Micron pens such as 005,03,and 08. Crosshatching for values took more than 2 hours. Instructor was Guillaume Piot (ref courtesy of). COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Tough Guy #sktchy #30faces30days Day 26

10.25x9 drawing pencil over charcoal powder underpainting done today for day 26 of the #sktchy annual portrait challenge #30faces30days. The challenge was to smear charcoal dust made by using sandpaper as I didn't have the commercial product onto paper then with erasers mark features and develop. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith