Beachfront Property

21.75 x 16.5 watercolor on Italia 140 lb soft press paper. This is a crop from a horizontal beach seascape with major elements rearranged, such as removing the picket fence that went straight across, parallel to the bottom, a compositional no-no! The scene had brush, grass, and branches throughout so those were edited and omitted. Now the viewer can walk in and go towards the next dune, the water, or the houses distant upper left. All I drew with pencil were the houses and large foliage upper right; all else is done with a brush. Sure wish I was there on this beachfront property. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Beach Horizon #inktober2024 day 13

4x6 ink line using STA 0.05 pen for the horizon mark then watercolor for the rest of the imaginary scene #inktober2024 for day 13. This is done on Joggles sketchbook paper. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Striped Beach Chairs in Junk Journal

Striped Beach Chairs in junk journal 5.5x8 using Stabilo woody colored pencils and watercolor over partly gessoed page in "new" junk journal I began several months back. In the 1940s nonfiction book there are many such small sketches or mixed media designs. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

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

Palm Fronds over Beach

6x6 watercolor using White Nights paints in Masters Touch sketchbook, 80 lb. paper, done last week during our annual art tour. In this imaginary beach or ocean scene, dark shadowed palm leaf fronds sway in the breeze. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Beach Storm Approaching

6x6 watercolor on Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done last weekend, another imaginary beach scene but this time with stormy dark clouds moving in covering the land and water as well. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Beach Sunrise

6x6 watercolor of imaginary beach scene in Masters Touch sketchbook, 80 lb paper, done a few days ago last week. Sea oats and other debris line the edge of the sand as one approaches the water at sunrise. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Three Palms

5x7.5 watercolor using White Nights paints in Moleskine for wc sketchbook (140 lb cold press paper) done over this past weekend for an online WetCanvas challenge. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Boat Ashore

5.5x8.5 watercolor using White Nights paints done this past week, an imaginary scene with a boat sitting empty on the beach. This is on Masters Touch 80 lb. paper. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Beach Bottle

8x8 watercolor on Italia Magnani 140 lb cold press paper done over the weekend of a green bottle on the beach (ref courtesy WetCanvas RIL). I enjoyed the cloudy skies and the light passing through all of it to the sand and water causing a reflection. White Nights paints were used. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Beach Bikes

7.5x11 watercolor using all the blues in my palette: UB, Prussian, Midnight, cobalt, cobalt teal blue, Antwerp, manganese, peacock, ultramarine turquoise, periwinkle, cerulean, verditer, moonglow and carbazole violet. I used a black and white printed ref courtesy WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event (Li Newton). The challenge was to use only blues. Support is Fabriano 140 lb rough paper. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2012.

Indian Rocks Beach

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink, using Micron 01 pen on Masters paper, a beach scene adapted from a local brochure painted while on vacation at the fun Florida beach in 2014.
COPYRIGHTKay Smith 2014.

Beach Friends

4.5x6.75 watercolor on Bienfang 140 lb cold press paper painted today for an online challenge with WetCanvas.  I liked the greenish hue of the tide waters rolling in and the dark green hat the woman on the right was wearing.  A challenge for me was to make her white clothing show skin.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Stormy Day at the Beach

2.5x3.5 watercolor miniature on 300 lb Saunders Waterford cold press paper done yesterday, an imaginary beach with storm clouds building up slowly approaching.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Ocean Rain

3.25x5.25 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, brush only, done this afternoon.  It is an imaginary seascape with low, ominous, threatening clouds and some much needed rain.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Koi Fish Chimes

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink on paper done last week on vacation.  These colorful ceramic fish chime when the sea breezes move them.  In the distance you can see an imaginary ocean and beach.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Yellow Umbrella

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink line on paper done recently for our monthly Watermedia forum challenge on WetCanvas.  This beach scene is a composition using two different photos supplied by host Valri Ary. The couple was in another scene.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Indian Rocks Beach

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink, using Micron 01 pen on Masters paper, a beach scene adapted from a local brochure painted last week.
Image is (C) Kay Smith 2014.

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.

Beach Bums

11x15 watercolor completed yesterday having begun in David Savellano's Dallas workshop on Nov.12-14.  With this scene, we had to only use 3 shapes:  Sky, land mass, sea and beach.  Figures were made with tiny bits of torn masking tape stuck to dry paper before pigments added.  All was done within 30 minutes, an imaginary scene that is calming to look at.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.