YoMama's

5.5x8.5 ink and watercolor using Micron 01 and Fude pens along with White Nights paints finished last week. This downtown cafe was an inspiration for members of our Big Spring Art Association at recent paint out. I used Master's Touch 80 lb sketchbook. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Stormy Prairie Skies

6x6 watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook done last weekend, another imaginary landscape scene with boisterous clouds over the prairie land. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Red Squirrel Headshot

White Necked Jacobin Hummer

6x6 watercolor on Masters Touch 80 lb sketchbook paper done a couple weeks ago using White Nights paints. Unaware of this type hummingbird a friend shared this photo to paint. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Pricklies and Brown Flowers

6x6 watercolor and ink on Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done in the first week of June, another in my cactus prickly pear series. With this piece I'm focused on the roughness of the rural countryside and its weeds, wildflowers, and cactus that grow and prosper together. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Putting Green

22x15 watercolor imaginary golf scene of a person putting a golfball towards the hole on a green. This is on 300 lb Saunders cold press paper. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Pink Florimania

12x13 alcohol inks on paper adhered to matboard done a few days ago, a floral abstract that reminded me of pink flowers and Spring. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

March Rose

March Rose 9x12 watercolor on Studio Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done week before last, a close crop of a peach colored rose and some green foliage. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Lotus Pod Party

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted last week or so as part of a lotus challenge for March I hosted on WetCanvas. I'd been admiring the abstraction in the lilypads, water, and lone lotus in my ref for awhile so decided to include its dramatic shapes and contrasts. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

In the Distance

5x9 watercolor using White Nights paints on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done weekend before last while on a short trip to the mountains. Practicing imaginary landscape scenes such as this small one is done with no pencil drawing beforehand, just brush only. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

White Tree Trunks in Snow

6x8 graphite watercolor blue shade with white oil pastel on Hahnemuhle grey toned 95 lb. paper done last weekend while it snowed. Using a scene previously done, this was quickly sketched and painted for a different take on the same mountain slope. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Geranium Gems

2.75 x 2.25 watercolor and ink line on 300 lb cold press Saunders paper done a few weeks ago using up paint and paper on this miniature floral. No reference used just imagination. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Tree Magic

5.25x7.75 alcohol inks on Yupo synthetic paper done last week or so, an experiment using the inks on Yupo with adding and subtracting colors until the tree image appeared. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Frigid River

6x9 watercolor monochromatic using only one color: Moonglow (Daniel Smith) painted last week using a windswept, frozen environment as the basis. Snow and ice can be seen encircling the icy water surface while the tree limbs and branches bend from the weight of winter. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Majestic Mallard

7x9 watercolor done yesterday for another online event using Grumbacher 140 lb cold press paper. In this close up of the colorful waterfowl, I've tried to focus on the duck's eyes and yellow long beak. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Roan Horse

8.5x5.5 watercolor and Brusho wc crystals using grey in Masters Touch sketchbook, 70 lb paper, done last weekend for another online WetCanvas challenge in the All Media Art Events. In this event, participants have 2 hours allotted to choose an image then draw or paint it. I was not sure if the horse was a blue roan or a grey roan. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Coastal Sunset

5.5x9 watercolor on Studio Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done last week for an online WetCanvas challenge; image courtesy Carl. In this coastal scene I have tried to show the variety of colors in the clouds compared to the shadowed foreground. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Silence of Snow

11x15 another quiet snow scene in the country, watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done about a week or so ago. I used Cobalt Blue Violet, ultramarine blue, Prussian blue (Daniel Smith), and aureolin modern (QoR) paints. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Posh Poinsettias

7x3 watercolor using brush only, no pencil drawing first, on a scrap of wc paper 140 lb cold press, done last month. I was studying the bracts of my own pink poinsettia plant that sparked this painting. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Quick Cosmos

4.5x3 watercolor, pink acrylic, and tissue collage on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done last week, sketching from a silk cosmos from life. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith