Beach Drink

9x6.5 watercolor using White Nights paints on Canson 117lb cold press paper done first week of July while on an art show trip. With this imaginary beach still life I'm seeing a cool drink on the hot sands. Also wishing I could visit the coast and enjoy the surf, waves, and relax a bit. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Beach Girl

8x8 watercolors using White Nights on Grumbacher 140 lb cold press done last month during #sktchy30faces30daysfigures challenge. This was for day 16. I enjoyed her unusual bathing suit and hair. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Gull Beach

5x8 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done last week as part of an online WetCanvas challenge. Love the waves, foam, beach sand and the lone gull flying above it all. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Seaside Shells

6 1/8 x 6 3/4 watercolor on a scrap of Saunders 140 lb CP that had pale yellow, blue, and pink wash underpainting. I drew imaginary shells and water then when dry splattered white and raw sienna mix to resemble seafoam and water on the beach. These small seaside themed still lifes are fun to paint. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Beach Beverage

5x7.75 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper painted over this past weekend from an online miniature painting challenge.  I love the shadow the drink cast upon the sunlit beach sand and the distant water.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Sky over Beach

9x12 watercolor of the sky with clouds starting to intensify in hopes of a rain shower.  Look closely and you can see tiny figures off the beach in this low horizon painting done recently.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Laguna Beach

5.5x8 watercolor on Strathmore Visual Journal 140 lb cold press paper, a beach scene I painted last week in my hotel room while everyone else was in the bar or gambling.  I don't paint that many landscapes unless the area is interesting and familiar.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Shoreline Kitty Hawk NC

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb paper, done today BRUSH ONLY no pencil of the Kitty Hawk beach in North Carolina, a place that was magical.  I cropped out the waterfront houses and stretched out the shoreline in this vertical landscape, so appropriate to paint on a day of icy sleet and cold north wind.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2013.

Little Girl with Red Pail

8x5.5 watercolor over ink sketch, ultrafine tip black Sharpie and Strathmore Visual Journal, of a young girl headed to the beach.  I am trying out the new journal and really do like its paper for watermedia, which is 140 lb cold pressed and acid free.  It will take watercolor, pen and ink, collage and marker.

Beach Umbrellas

12x18 watercolor of various colorful beach 'brellas on a sandy beach complete with palm trees and warm temps.  I drew this with Pigma Micron 01 pen.

Red Hat at the Beach

7x5 watercolor of a woman on the beach wearing a red sun hat and looking out to the ocean.  This work has been SOLD.

Seaside Shells

6 1/8 x 6 3/4 watercolor on a scrap of Saunders 140 lb CP that had pale yellow, blue, and pink wash underpainting.  I drew imaginary shells and water then when dry splattered white and raw sienna mix to resemble seafoam and water on the beach.  These small seaside themed still lifes are fun to paint and will sell quickly. 

Bermuda Brunch

15x22 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints of a brunch table setting in Bermuda.  After painting this best of show winner I sold it to some of our dear friends a few years ago.  All the lines and keeping whites pure was a real challenge in this ocean side still life.

Final version Just Beachy

Yesterday I worked on this one again adding texture for sand onto the towel all around using American Journey Coastal Fog and white, then intensifying shadows.  Hopefully it reads better now, so let me know.