Blooming Garden Chair

8x6 watercolor on handmade rough 140 lb cold press paper done mid July, an imaginary rusty garden chair holding blooms in the sunshine. Garden scenes are such fun to paint. Keep your plants watered and healthy in this triple digit heat. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Maureen's Hat

8.5x5.5 watercolor/ink in Masters Touch sketchbook using White Nights/Daniel Smith paints along with STA Lictin 0.3 pen done over last weekend. Photo courtesy Maureen/WetCanvas. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Magic Afternoon

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders cold press paper sketched first on my patio of annuals and potted pansies.  The sun was casting its shadows onto the flowers, garden chair and table, during this time.  This work is SOLD.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2010.

Child's Garden Chair

19x15 watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper, an antique store find in the middle of my imaginary floral garden.  Dark pink hydrangeas, vinca, petunias, impatiens and others bloom in profusion across the paper.  Three clay pots take up residence in immediate foreground.  This one was finished today after starting last week.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Signs of Spring (oil)

18x24 oil on canvas of pink geraniums in white wicker chair, a simple porch floral still life scene set up which I also did in watercolor, a recent post.  The silk flowers were placed into a heavy pale blue basket and morning sun gave nice colorful cast shadows on the chair back.  I still have the chair but it is spray painted lilac.  This work is SOLD.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Garden Friends

10x7 watercolor on Langton 140 lb cold press paper of various garden items and freshly cut flowers in my old metal pail.  Due to little rain this spring we had hardly any flowers to look at.  Here I've added imaginary cosmos, poppies, larkspur, etc., all sitting on worn out wooden folding chair.  This work is now SOLD.

Sunflower Garden Chair

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, another garden chair in the series of florals; first was lilacs, then geraniums and now sunflowers.  Since it is now snowing here it was a perfect day to finish this cheery sunlit scene which is imaginary.

Lilac Chair

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints.  This is an older painting featuring a rather worn wooden chair with chipped paint stuck in the garden to hold plants.  I have painted other versions changing the direction and adding other flowers such as geraniums to the wire basket.  I painted this wet in wet and did negative painting on background and foreground.

Green Wicker and Clay Goat

15x22 watercolor of my old pale green wicker patio chair with clay goat planter from New Mexico.  It held a pot that made fascinating shadow patterns across the chair back.  This painting was one of the first ones published in a book by Christopher Willard on color mixing, the 12-hue method by Rockport publishers.

Lilac Chair

22x15 watercolor of a lilac basket perched on an old pale blue wooden garden chair.  This is the second time I've painted the subject and have also done it twice using geraniums and a different chair.  Garden subjects are so much fun to paint and depict a carefree day.