Orange Poppy Collage

8x8 mixed media collage on paper using watercolor, rice batik, and gift wrap paper to form this orange poppy art. I used an older poppy painting of mine as inspiration. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Gentle Giant Elephant

20x16 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas started yesterday (see the first phase posted below) then finished up today.  Using various heavy paper magazines, colored pieces were torn by hand and applied with matte medium both sides.  When totally dry I will varnish with gloss medium and sign it.

Most of the elephant was done yesterday in about 1.5 hours, although with this work in progress, I had to go back and correct values today.  You can see the black marker lines on the gessoed canvas where I drew background and foreground grasses.  This work is now SOLD.

Paris Hilton Cupcake - collage

10 x10 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas, a daily work of art from my New Mexico studio, using magazine pages, advertisements, and various papers.