Beach Girl

8x8 watercolors using White Nights on Grumbacher 140 lb cold press done last month during #sktchy30faces30daysfigures challenge. This was for day 16. I enjoyed her unusual bathing suit and hair. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Woman in White Dress at Beach

11x15 watercolor imaginary scene done today using no references so hope the clouds and woman look proportional and in scale.  A light pencil drawing of the woman was first but no drawing done for clouds or ocean.  I did forget to put some seagulls flying overhead but can add them later.  This one will accompany my December Living magazine article our local newspaper, the Big Spring Herald, publishes.  You can make up your own story for this seascape.  What is she looking at, thinking of, or about to do? Meet a lover? Pray? Sunbathe? Watching a storm develop?
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Little Girl with Red Pail

8x5.5 watercolor over ink sketch, ultrafine tip black Sharpie and Strathmore Visual Journal, of a young girl headed to the beach.  I am trying out the new journal and really do like its paper for watermedia, which is 140 lb cold pressed and acid free.  It will take watercolor, pen and ink, collage and marker.