Flower Urn

6x6 watercolor using White Nights paints done week before last, a simple floral garden scene on 80 lb sketchbook paper (Master's Touch). COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Pearlescent Tulips

6x4 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done a few months ago for a donation; this postcard size work was brush only with no pre-drawing or reference used. Hope to see some tulips this Spring! COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Garden Tools and Flowers

12x12 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Masters paper completed today of a garden still life complete with a butterfly.  The old yellow chair holds a watercan of tools while the blue metal can holds freshly cut annuals and flowering tree blooms.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Penny's Pots

8.25x5.25 watercolor over pencil sketch in my grunge junk journal done last month of fellow artist Penny's garden pots and rocks.  This is painted over a book page so it is likely no text is visible.
COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith

Bike Blooms

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink on Bienfang for mixed media sketchbook painted today.  A few days ago I drew the bike, basket of hydrangeas, and tree for Sketchbook Skool for a negative spaces sketch assignment.  This imaginary scene was done by only drawing between shapes, not an easy feat.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Early Spring Cosmos

6x4 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper painted yesterday.  Drawn from life using silk cosmos these blooms herald an early spring.  Shades of pinks, dark maroon, and white grace the fragile petals as they sway in an imaginary wind.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Poppy Thoughts WIP

11x15 watercolor begun yesterday with a loose pencil drawing on Canson 140 lb cold press support.  This paper lets Daniel Smith's quinacridone coral, indigo, and arylide yellow sit on top and really shout.  Working wet on dry I'm laying warm reds and pinks next to cool tones and mixing indigo with thalo blue and green for very cool foliage accents with green supporting red in a complementary manner.  It will probably look like all my poppy works, but it's a working method I prefer to photorealism! These lovelies were photographed in Wales, so stay tuned for the next work in progress or the final version.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Gardening

18.5x14.75 watercolor and colored pencils on 140 lb cold press Arches paper, a very old totally imaginary work dated 1996.  Colors were splashed on for an underpainting, let dry, then negative shapes carved out first for a female figure, then picket fence posts, pots and flowers.  There's no rhyme or reason here as I did not know design/composition.  I had it on consignment with Ellen Barefoot in a downtown Big Spring antique store; they closed years ago and she forgot it until recently and returned it.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Antique Store Pots

11x15 watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper/Daniel Smith paints limited palette.  Red yucca and white petunias flank an old antique store doorway that was next door to my first studio downtown on Main Street in Big Spring, TX.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.