Old Mail Pouch Barns

7x9 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done week before last from one of my earlier barn photos I have painted before. Love the old advertising Mail Pouch tobacco signs that are seen in some very old farm barns in the American landscape. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Frosted Farm

7x9 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done at month's beginning, a winter landscape using my farm reference. Here a heavy frost covers the distant farmhouse and barn with buildings while a deep ditch is in the foreground. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Farm Buildings

6x8 watercolor on Masters Touch 140 lb cold press paper painted over the weekend from one and several farms we passed through this summer in north Texas. The grey buildings complement the green and brown land areas well in this rural country scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Old Farm Scene

11x17.5 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders cold press paper, an imaginary farm scene set in autumn before the first snow happens. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Wisconsin Farm

7x11 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper painted yesteday using White Nights paints. This is Jenna H's farm on a recent snowy night; she is a fellow moderator on WetCanvas.  Probably this one is my second or third nocturnal scene/landscape.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Farm Sky

3.25x5.75 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper done today, a quick exercise at an imaginary landscape.  No pencil drawing, just brush only.  I put farm buildings on the right with an abstract sky and trees above and on the far left.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith.

Small Farm in Winter

6x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb. cold press paper done this past weekend for an online WetCanvas event in which we had 2 hours to paint; I did this one in 1.5 hours.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Off the Beaten Path

6x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper painted yesterday as part of a series of barns and old buildings theme.  This is for posting on Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days September blog challenge and we are now on day #6.  The past two days I have done six pieces.  With the old ramshackle shed building I've added scattered rocks negatively painted in the foreground while it sits on a high horizon.  On my Saturday trip to enter Artists of Texas exhibit in Breckenridge I was able to photograph many old farm buildings.  A limited palette of burnt sienna, cerulean and ultramarine blue, raw sienna was used.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Hay Barn and Silos

15x22 watercolor imaginary farm scene on Saunders 140 lb paper, painted wet in wet.  From the chickens pecking in the foreground to hay stacked inside and the blue skies above this painting brings back many memories of farm life and the hard work that goes with it.