Icy Creek Banks

5.5x8.5 white wax crayon and watercolor in sketchbook done last week. This imaginary winter scene is rendered on 80 lb Master's Touch paper using Daniel Smith paints. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Late Fall Freeze

7x9 mixed media in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper using white crayon and White Nights watercolors done last weekend. No reference used and no pencil sketch before painting. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Frigid River

6x9 watercolor monochromatic using only one color: Moonglow (Daniel Smith) painted last week using a windswept, frozen environment as the basis. Snow and ice can be seen encircling the icy water surface while the tree limbs and branches bend from the weight of winter. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

February Aspens

9x6 watercolor on Grumbacher 140 lb cold press paper sketched yesterday then finished today. This mountain winter landscape of aspens was prompted by some I saw last week in New Mexico and the other elements are from imagination. I've really pushed color with this tree scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Cold Water Creek

3x7 watercolor and white crayon on 140 lb Canson paper done last week in anticipation of painting a larger version of this mountain creek in deep icy winter conditions. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Icebound

Icebound 6x9 watercolor and white crayon on 140 lb cold press Canson done a few weeks ago as a class demo, another imaginary winter landscape, frozen and icy, just like the weather here the past 3 days. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Bleak Winter

3x5.5 watercolor and white crayon on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done last week using no reference just imagination in this winter snow and ice landscape. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

December Frozen Fog

8x6 watercolor and white crayon on Hahnemuhle grey toned paper in sketchbook done a few days ago, another imaginary scene of a frozen creek, bank and trees. Negative painting was done in the bare branch tree area. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Frozen River Trees

6x4 Brusho, oil pastels, and wax crayon on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done last week, an experimental winter landscape. I wanted to use multiple media together to see what effects would result. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Tree on Snowbanks

12x6 watercolor and Brusho on Strathmore 140 lb. cold press paper, painted last week, an imaginary scene in winter. The Brusho adds another dimension to the texture I usually need to express. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Frozen Twisted Trees

5x8 mixed media on Canson 140 lb. cold press paper done today, an imaginary scene I could experiment on with different combinations. For this I did a pencil sketch first, then used white crayon over various tree parts, ground, and water. I used both black and white Brusho crystals next over a partially spritzed paper. I made a small amount of black Brusho mixed with water for a darker hue and used that to create more than one value. Diluted amounts of black and white Brusho made the sky and foreground. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Frozen Forest Stream

8x6 watercolor, Brusho, and white wax crayon on Fabriano 140 lb rough paper done today with no pre-drawing, just some outlines with the crayon. This scene from the Lincoln National forest is showing a frozen stream and its snow laden trees standing tall in the winter season. COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Country Barn in Snow

12x6 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper done as another winter snowscape. An imaginary scene leads the viewer into the vertical composition up a slight hill to the old deserted barn covered in nature's white blanket.

COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

December Days

4.25x5.5 watercolor on Fluid 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday of an imaginary winter landscape complete with snow and overcast skies.  I wanted to use color combinations never tried so for the sky burnt umber + phthalo blue were mixed and same colors throughout except for the buildings which was Indian red. That red stays on my palette but is not popular as it is opaque.  I mixed a grey of what colors were in the mixing part of the palette for the frozen water.  Distant hills were softened with a damp brush.  I am trying to paint better landscapes along with portraits, two subjects that are not easy.
COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith   Email:   1971ks@att.net for more information or to purchase via PayPal.

Snowbank

12x6 watercolor and white wax crayon on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper done last week.  I made random vertical lines with the crayon then added different neutral colors greyed down for trees.  Negative painting was done for branches and other tree branch shapes.  Reflections in the frozen ice foreground was a happy accident I didn't intend on having but I liked its effects.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.