Old Faucet with Sunflowers

11x12.5 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper; Daniel Smith paints. This is an imaginary country still life with the vivid sunflowers, old rusty hydrant faucet and weathered wood barn wall behind. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Barn Poppies

7.25x3.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper completed yesterday for last week's online challenge on WetCanvas; ref courtesy Clea. I have cropped the poppies into a vertical format in this country barn landscape to better focus on them. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Lupines Bluebonnets

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink (Micron 01 pen) on Masters sketchbook paper done over the weekend.  As Texas state flower, the bluebonnet or lupine stands proud and tall in the state it calls home.  In various hues of blue-purple and red-purple, the multifaceted plant can be seen as a sea of blue across the mid-state hill country in the spring.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Mexican Red Hats wildflowers

4.25x7.25 watercolor on 300 lb cold press Saunders paper, wet in wet wildflowers that grow all over town.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Zinnia and Butterfly

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper from one of my older photos of studio zinnias that I was lucky enough to have camera ready when the butterfly stopped by for a visit.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Odessa Sunflower - demo today

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper done today for the Odessa Texas Art Association live demo program.  I photographed the sunflower in 2003 in that town as Leada Wood and I were traveling for an art meeting; many other photos from that day have been painted but not this one.  About 1.5 hours was the time limit.  This is wet on dry using 1" flat sable brush and these pigments:  Quinacridones burnt orange and gold, Prussian, ultramarine and Bice blues, arylide and cadmium yellows, and new gamboge.  A very wet Blue Bice (American Journey) hue was the main background color.  As an opaque, it had to be thinner.  Note the two small lavender and brown shaded moths.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Fresh Cosmos on Yupo

 

14x11 watercolor of white and pink cosmos flowers just in time for spring! This was painted yesterday on Yupo synthetic paper from several of my cosmos photos. This image is Copyright 2013 Kay Smith.