Sunny Seeds

15x11 watercolor using White Nights paints on 140 lb cold press paper, done in December. This is more of a fun sunflower take on the flower versus my usual realism. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Sunflower Petals in the Wind

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, a painting demo done on Monday for art students. Roughly I sketched in pencil the sunflower petals and stem in almost a blind contour method (to remain loose), then laid in colors in 15 minutes. Background was added after this dried with a 1" flat brush. Reference was one of my sunflower photos. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

June Sunflower

11x15 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press block done this past week, working on its composition for about 3 days. Lots of negative painting of the leaves and in the background. Daniel Smith paints were used. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Sunflower Glowing

11x15 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press of a mature sunflower; this was my demo for a workshop.
I have painted several versions of this flower and one of those was all in pinks and is now sold.  Each version is more fun than the last. It was done wet in wet with transparent colors.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Spring Sunflower

3.75 x 2.75 watercolor miniature done quickly last week on a day I didn't have much time to do any art. So this is from imagination.

Actual size below:

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Sunflower Shimmer for a Happy New Year

22x15 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb cold press paper completed today, which was a good idea as it was 8 degrees this morning.  That's a nice way to start the new year by being optimistic and painting a sunny sunflower.  This one was one of the images in our current weekend drawing event of which I'm the host.  A new resolution is to paint more! Yay, for sure.  Happy New Year everyone!
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Sunflower SunShine

15x22 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Saunders Waterford paper, of a mature sunflower bending its head down from the weight of the summer sun.  It was painted using one of my sunflower photos.  This painting was a demo, done in about 1.5 hours, and has now been SOLD.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2017.

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.